Playing with God
Religion and Modern Sport
by William J Baker
336 pages· 2009· ISBN 9780674020443
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Like no other nation on earth, Americans eagerly blend their religion and sports. This book traces this dynamic relationship from the Puritan condemnation of games as sinful in the seventeenth century to the near deification of athletic contests in our own day.
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