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 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
eBook, English, ©1995
University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., ©1995
1 online resource (xv, 383 pages)
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From Sabbath bans to Super Sunday
The old knight in the new world
Revolutionary heroes and fighting parsons
The acrobatic Christianity of the early frontier
The soul of American knighthood
The consecration of college Sports
Manliness moves west
Playful alternatives
Sportianity versus mountainity
Builders of character and the YMCA
Cloning West Point on the American campus
Symbols of the union of Caesar and Christ
Power in the sweat
Field generals of the crusade
Power in the tube
The knight and the shepherd
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