The Faith of 50 Million: Baseball, Religion, and American Culture - Softcover

Evans

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0664223052 ISBN 13: 9780664223052

Verlag: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006

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Reseña del editor:

The Faith of 50 Million features essays by religion scholars who analyze the relationship between baseball and theology in American culture. Topics include the sense of national identity, baseball and civil religion, "saints and sinners," baseball and the American Dream with regard to racial integration, women and baseball, baseball as metaphor, and baseball as spiritual autobiography. Readers will love this fascinating intersection of baseball, race, American civil religion, and contemporary sports culture.

Biografía del autor:

Christopher H. Evans is Vice President for Academic Life, Dean of Faculty, Sallie Knowles Crozer Professor of Church History and Director of United Methodist Studies at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School in Rochester, New York. William R. Herzog II was formerly Sallie Knowles Crozer Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School in Rochester, New York. His books include Parables as Subversive Speech: Jesus as Pedagogue of the Oppressed; Jesus, Justice, and the Reign of God: A Ministry of Liberation; and The Faith of Fifty Million: Baseball, Religion, and American Culture, all published by WJK.

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• Verlag: Westminster John Knox Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0664223052
• ISBN 13: 9780664223052
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 312