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Sports in Zion : Mormon recreation, 1890-1940 / Richard Ian Kimball.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Sports and societyPublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780252091612
  • 0252091612
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sports in ZionDDC classification:
  • 790/.088/283 21
LOC classification:
  • GV54.U8
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
"Not playing without a purpose" : the construction of a Mormon recreation ideology -- "A strong arm to the church" : recreation building boom -- "For the uplifting and the betterment of the youth of Israel" : athletics, socialization, and the "selling of the word of wisdom" -- "A means of preserving the memory of the Mormon pioneers" : LDS recreation in the great outdoors -- "To make the most of leisure" : recreation responds in a depression decade.
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Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)569805

Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-212) and index.

"Not playing without a purpose" : the construction of a Mormon recreation ideology -- "A strong arm to the church" : recreation building boom -- "For the uplifting and the betterment of the youth of Israel" : athletics, socialization, and the "selling of the word of wisdom" -- "A means of preserving the memory of the Mormon pioneers" : LDS recreation in the great outdoors -- "To make the most of leisure" : recreation responds in a depression decade.

Description based on print version record.