From season to season : sports as American religion / edited by Joseph L. Price.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Sports and religionPublication details: Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, 2001.Edition: 1st edDescription: ix, 240 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0865546940
  • 9780865546943
  • 9780865549616
  • 0865549613
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GV 706.42 .F76 2001
Contents:
From sabbath proscriptions to super Sunday celebrations: sports and religion in America / Joseph L. Price -- God and games in modern culture / Lonnie D. Kliever -- From season to season: the rhythmic and religious significance of American sports seasons / Joseph L. Price -- The pitcher's mound as cosmic mountain: the religious significance of baseball / Joseph L. Price -- The fetish and McGwire's balls / Paul C. Johnson -- Every religion needs a martyr: the role of Matty, Gehrig, and Clemente in the national faith / Peter Williams -- Through the eyes of Mircea Eliade: United States football as a religious rite de passage / Bonnie Miller-McLemore -- The super bowl as religious festival / Joseph L. Price -- American sport as folk religion: examining a test of its strength / James A. Mathisen -- Basketball's Abbot: Bob Knight and the drive for protection / Lois Daly -- The final four as final judgment: the religious and cultural significance of the NCAA basketball championship / Joseph L. Price -- A puckish reflection on religion in Canada / Tom Faulkner -- Myth and ritual in professional wrestling / Charles S. Adams -- An American apotheosis: sports as popular religion / Joseph L. Price.
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Book Storms Research Center Main Collection GV 706.42 .F76 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 98650798

Series statement taken from series t.p. in succeeding volume.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From sabbath proscriptions to super Sunday celebrations: sports and religion in America / Joseph L. Price -- God and games in modern culture / Lonnie D. Kliever -- From season to season: the rhythmic and religious significance of American sports seasons / Joseph L. Price -- The pitcher's mound as cosmic mountain: the religious significance of baseball / Joseph L. Price -- The fetish and McGwire's balls / Paul C. Johnson -- Every religion needs a martyr: the role of Matty, Gehrig, and Clemente in the national faith / Peter Williams -- Through the eyes of Mircea Eliade: United States football as a religious rite de passage / Bonnie Miller-McLemore -- The super bowl as religious festival / Joseph L. Price -- American sport as folk religion: examining a test of its strength / James A. Mathisen -- Basketball's Abbot: Bob Knight and the drive for protection / Lois Daly -- The final four as final judgment: the religious and cultural significance of the NCAA basketball championship / Joseph L. Price -- A puckish reflection on religion in Canada / Tom Faulkner -- Myth and ritual in professional wrestling / Charles S. Adams -- An American apotheosis: sports as popular religion / Joseph L. Price.

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