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Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America
Author: Randal Balmer
Narrator: Randal Balmer
Unabridged: 5 hr 2 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Findaway Voices
Published: 02/18/2023
Synopsis
Randall Balmer was a late proselyte to sports live radio, however he immediately became dependent, very much like huge number of other gave American avid supporters. As a student of history of religion, the more he tuned in, Balmer couldn't resist the opportunity to consider how the enthusiasm he heard connected with strict practice. Places of love once jumped on Sabbath-busting games, yet today most readily oblige Super Bowl Sunday. Then again, ball's innovator, James Naismith, was a passionate adherent of Strong Christianity and accepted the game would assist with creating strict person. However, today those strict roots are to a great extent neglected.
Here perhaps of our most smart author on American religion prepares his emphasis on that other incredible energy — group activities — to uncover their astonishing associations. From baseball to b-ball and football to ice hockey, Balmer investigates the starting points and narratives of big-time sports from the late nineteenth hundred years to the present, with engaging accounts and new experiences into their connections to strict life. Alluding to Notre Woman football, the Catholic Sun called its being a fan ""a sort of sacred."" Armies of avid supporters perusing Energy Plays will perceive precisely exact thing that implies.
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