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God In The Stadium : Sports and Religion in America /
From the worship of Michael Jordan to the downfall of O.J. Simpson, it has become clear that sports and sports heroes have assumed a role in American society far out of proportion to their traditional value. In this powerful critique of present-day American popular culture, Robert J. Higgs examines...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
2015.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1. From Sabbath Bans to Super Sunday; 2. The Old Knight in the New World; 3. Revolutionary Heroes and Fighting Parsons; 4. The Acrobatic Christianity of the Early Frontier; 5. The Soul of American Knighthood; 6. The Consecration of College Sports; 7. Manliness Moves West; 8. Playful Alternatives; 9. Sportianity versus Mountainity; 10. Builders of Character and the YMCA; 11. Cloning West Point on the American Campus; 12. Symbols of the Union of Caesar and Christ; 13. Power in the Sweat; 14. Field Generals of the Crusade. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 15. Power in the Tube16. The Knight and the Shepherd; Works Cited; Index. | |
| 520 | |a From the worship of Michael Jordan to the downfall of O.J. Simpson, it has become clear that sports and sports heroes have assumed a role in American society far out of proportion to their traditional value. In this powerful critique of present-day American popular culture, Robert J. Higgs examines the complex and increasingly pervasive control that sports wield in shaping the national self-image. He provides a thoughtful history and analysis of how sports and religion have become intertwined and offers a stinging indictment of the sports-religion-media-education complex. Beginning with the pla. | ||
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