Baseball as a Road to God - Seeing Beyond the Game (Paperback)

The president of New York University offers a love letter to America's most beloved sport and a tribute to its underlying spirituality.
For more than a decade, John Sexton has taught a wildly popular New York University course about two seemingly very different things: religion and baseball. Yet Sexton argues that one is actually a pathway to the other.
"Baseball as a Road to God" is about touching that something that lies beyond logical understanding. Sexton illuminates the surprisingly large number of mutual concepts shared between baseball and religion: faith, doubt, conversion, miracles, and even sacredness among many others.
Structured like a game and filled with riveting accounts of baseball's most historic moments, "Baseball as Road to God" will enthrall baseball fans whatever their religious beliefs may be. In thought-provoking, beautifully rendered prose, Sexton elegantly demonstrates that baseball is more than a game, or even a national pastime: It can be a road to enlightenment.

General

Imprint:	Gotham Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2014
First published:	March 2014
Authors:	John Sexton • Thomas Oliphant • Peter J. Schwartz
Dimensions:	203 x 136 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-1-59240-864-1
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > General Books > Christianity
LSN:	1-59240-864-8
Barcode:	9781592408641

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