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Rebecca T. Alpert is professor of religion at Temple University. She is the author of Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition, which won a Lambda Literary Award and Award for Scholarship from the Jewish Women's Caucus of the Association for Women in Psychology; Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball; and Whose Torah? A Concise Guide to Progressive Judaism.

Baseball was America -- The business of Black baseball before World War II -- World War II and the advancement of Black baseball -- The conflict over comedy baseball -- The Jewish contribution to ending Jim Crow baseball -- Enter Jackie Robinson

Introduction /Rebecca Alpert,Arthur Remillard --Part I:A global perspective.A very serious game : soccer as a window into the theology of capitalism /Kevin Hargaden --"Sport with a mission" : sport as a means of renewed Catholic apostolate among indigenous people in former Belgian Congo (1919-1959) /Dries Vanysacker --The paradox of Christian masculinity : sports, war, and internationalism at the 1919 Inter-Allied Games /Seth Dowland --The Clericus Cup /Janelle Peters --Part II:Beyond the Holy Trinity.Pole dance as a counter-cultural, feminist, embodied practice for the reclamation of eros /Jennifer Baldwin --Casting for meaning : the mythical, mystical, and metaphysical significance of fly fishing /Joseph L. Price --Muscular affect : the power team and the heavy lifiting of evangelical salvation /Annie Blazer --Redeeming sports violence : mixed martial arts ministries as a remedy for gender anxieties in American evangelicalism /Scott Strednak Singer --Sybil "Syd" Koff : track and field star in American Jewish life /Linda J. Borish --Part III:Emerging theoretical insights."I pray that I can be contagious" : exploring the faith of Christian elite athletes using a socio-theological approach /Tom Gibbons,Stuart Braye --The scandalizing of religion, fanaticism, and modern sport /Roberto Sirvent,Duncan Reyburn --Turning those others' cheeks : racial martyrdom and the re-intergration of major league baseball /Carmen Nanko-Fernández --Sport and the "search for the sacred" /Tracy J. Trothen --Overtime.Christianity and ice hockey in Canada : the role of violence /Nick DeLuca.