TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baker,William J.
TI  - Playing with God: Religion and Modern Sport / 
SN  - 9780674024212
AV  - GV706.42 ǂb B35 2007eb 
U1  - 201/.6796 
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Christianity
KW  - United States
KW  - Sports
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - SPORTS & RECREATION / History
KW  - sh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674020443
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674020443
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674020443/original
ER  -