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Passion Plays - How Religion Shaped Sports in North America (Hardcover)
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Passion Plays - How Religion Shaped Sports in North America (Hardcover)
Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
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Randall Balmer was a late convert to sports talk radio, but he
quickly became addicted, just like millions of other devoted
American sports fans. As a historian of religion, the more he
listened, Balmer couldn't help but wonder how the fervor he heard
related to religious practice. Houses of worship once railed
against Sabbath-busting sports events, but today most willingly
accommodate Super Bowl Sunday. On the other hand, basketball's
inventor, James Naismith, was an ardent follower of Muscular
Christianity and believed the game would help develop religious
character. But today those religious roots are largely forgotten.
Here one of our most insightful writers on American religion trains
his focus on that other great passion-team sports-to reveal their
surprising connections. From baseball to basketball and football to
ice hockey, Balmer explores the origins and histories of big-time
sports from the late nineteenth century to the present, with
entertaining anecdotes and fresh insights into their ties to
religious life. Referring to Notre Dame football, The Catholic Sun
called its fandom "a kind of sacramental." Legions of sports fans
reading Passion Plays will recognize exactly what that means.
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