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The holy trinity of American sports : civil religion in football, baseball, and basketball / Craig A. Forney.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Forney, Craig A.
- Series:
- Sports and religion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sports--Social aspects--United States.
- Sports.
- Sports--Social aspects.
- Basketball--Social aspects.
- Basketball.
- Football--Social aspects.
- Football.
- United States.
- Football--Social aspects--United States.
- Baseball--Social aspects--United States.
- Baseball.
- Baseball--Social aspects.
- Basketball--Social aspects--United States.
- Sports--United States--Religious aspects.
- Civil religion--United States.
- Civil religion.
- National characteristics, American.
- Physical Description:
- 224 pages ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- The Holy Trinity of American Sports explores how football, baseball, and basketball interact to illustrate civil religion in the United States. Year after year, they generate ritual actions of daily, weekly, yearly, and once-in-a-lifetime significance. Football, baseball, and basketball portray three core stories of the nation worldview. Through stories of life, the three games convey doctrines about the source of truth, where to find knowledge of truths, and how to solve problems. Beyond doctrinal convictions, they disclose ethical beliefs of the nation for the worst, best, and most common situations. Collectively, the sports trinity communicates commitments to certain social arrangements, offering directives for interaction with people outside and inside the country. Football, baseball, and basketball possess great importance in the United States because they provide comprehensive and detailed illustration of American beliefs.
- Contents:
- The sports of American civil religion
- Holy rites of football, baseball, and basketball
- Football : American myth of history
- Baseball : sacred story of American aspirations
- Basketball : American story of irreversible progress
- Doctrines of the sports trinity
- The ethical dimension of football, baseball, and basketball
- Social tenets of the sports trinity
- Experience of football, baseball, and basketball
- Revelations of the sports trinity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-215) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780881460544
- 0881460540
- OCLC:
- 122337943
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