Playing with God Religion and Modern Sport

Name: Playing with God Religion and Modern Sport
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ISBN: 9780674024212

ISBN-10: 0674024214

ISBN-13: 9780674024212

Edition: 2007

Authors: William J. Baker

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The spectacle of modern sport displays all the latest commercial and technological innovations, yet age-old religious concerns still thrive at the stadium. Coaches lead pre-game and post-game prayers, athletes give God the credit for home runs and touchdowns, and fans wave signs with biblical quotations and allusions. Like no other nation on earth, Americans eagerly blend their religion and sports. Playing with God traces this dynamic relationship from the Puritan condemnation of games as sinful in the seventeenth century to the near deification of athletic contests in our own day. Early religious opposition to competitive sport focused on the immoderate enthusiasm of players and…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/15/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.15" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Religion and Modern Sport


List of Illustrations


Introduction



Old Gods and Games



The Road to Brawnville



Praying and Playing in the YMCA



Sweetening the Gospel with Sport



When Dixie Took a Different Stand



God and Country Games



For God, the Gipper, and the Green



Sunday Games



Playing on the Fringe



Making a Pitch for Jesus



Athletes for Allah



Teammates and Soul Mates



Gods and Games Today Notes


Acknowledgments


Index