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Playing with God : Religion and Modern Sport / / William J. Baker.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674024212
  • 9780674020443
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 201/.6796
LOC classification:
  • GV706.42 ǂb B35 2007eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. OLD GODS AND GAMES -- 2. THE ROAD TO BRAWNVILLE -- 3. PRAYING AND PLAYING IN THE YMCA -- 4. SWEETENING THE GOSPEL WITH SPORT -- 5. WHEN DIXIE TOOK A DIFFERENT STAND -- 6. GOD AND COUNTRY GAMES -- 7. FOR GOD, THE GIPPER, AND THE GREEN -- 8. SUNDAY GAMES -- 9. PLAYING ON THE FRINGE -- 10. MAKING A PITCH FOR JESUS -- 11. ATHLETES FOR ALLAH -- 12. TEAMMATES AND SOUL MATES -- 13. GODS AND GAMES TODAY -- NOTES. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. INDEX -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX
Summary: Like no other nation on earth, Americans eagerly blend their religion and sports. This book 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674020443

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. OLD GODS AND GAMES -- 2. THE ROAD TO BRAWNVILLE -- 3. PRAYING AND PLAYING IN THE YMCA -- 4. SWEETENING THE GOSPEL WITH SPORT -- 5. WHEN DIXIE TOOK A DIFFERENT STAND -- 6. GOD AND COUNTRY GAMES -- 7. FOR GOD, THE GIPPER, AND THE GREEN -- 8. SUNDAY GAMES -- 9. PLAYING ON THE FRINGE -- 10. MAKING A PITCH FOR JESUS -- 11. ATHLETES FOR ALLAH -- 12. TEAMMATES AND SOUL MATES -- 13. GODS AND GAMES TODAY -- NOTES. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. INDEX -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX

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Like no other nation on earth, Americans eagerly blend their religion and sports. This book 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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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