From Season to Season : Sports as American Religion,9780865546943

From Season to Season : Sports as American Religion

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ISBN13: 9780865546943
ISBN10: 0865546940
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-02-01
Publisher(s): Mercer Univ Pr
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In From Season to Season: Sports as American Religion, nine scholars of religion and theology explore the relationship between religion and sports in American popular culture and the role of sports as religion.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Frevent Faith: Sports as Religion in America
3(12)
Joseph L. Price
Sports and Religion in America
From Sabbath Proscriptions to Super Sunday Celebrations: Sports and Religion in America
15(24)
Joseph L. Price
God and Games in Modern Culture
39(10)
Lonnie D. Kliever
From Season to Season: The Rhythmic and Religious Significance of American Sports Seasons
49(12)
Joseph L. Price
Baseball
The Pitcher's Mound as Cosmic Mountain: The Religious Significance of Baseball
61(16)
Joseph L. Price
The Fetish and McGwire's Balls
77(22)
Paul C. Johnson
Every Religion Needs a Martyr: The Role of Matty, Gehrig, and Clemente in the National Faith
99(16)
Peter Williams
Football
Through the Eyes of Mircea Eliade: United States Football as a Religious Rite de Passage
115(22)
Bonnie Miller-McLemore
The Super Bowl as Religious Festival
137(4)
Joseph L. Price
American Sport as Folk Religion Examining a Test of Its Strength
141(22)
James A. Mathisen
Basketball
Basketball's Abbot: Bob Knight and the Drive for Perfection
163(8)
Lois Daly
The Final Four as Final Judgment: The Religious and Cultural Significance of the NCAA Basketball Championship
171(14)
Joseph L. Price
Hockey and Wrestling
A Puckish Reflection on Religion in Canada
185(18)
Tom Faulkner
Myth and Ritual in Professional Wrestling
203(12)
Charles S. Adams
Conclusion
An American Apotheosis: Sports as Popular Religion
215
Joseph L. Price

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