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Cover -- Half Title -- Also by Randall Balmer -- Title -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- INTRODUCTION. To Everything a Season: The Peculiar Passion Surrounding Team Sports -- CHAPTER 1. It Breaks Your Heart: The Industrial Revolution and the Origins of Baseball -- CHAPTER 2. A Great Moral Force: The Civil War and the Origins of Football -- CHAPTER 3. Soul of a Nation: The Canadian Confederation and the Origins of Hockey -- CHAPTER 4. A Labyrinth of Wanderings: Urbanization and the Origins of Basketball -- CONCLUSION. Shut Up and Dribble: From the Sanctuary to the Stadium -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

Transatlantic Visionaries -- The Flushing Remonstrance, William Livingston, and King's College -- Forging the First Amendment -- George Washington and divine providence -- John Adams and the Treaty of Tripoli -- James Madison and the Baptists -- Thomas Jefferson, the First Amendment, and the Mammoth Cheese -- Disestablishment in Connecticut -- Designating the United States as a "Christian Nation" -- School Wars and the Blaine Amendments -- Mormons and the "Divine Origins" of the Constitution -- The Johnson Amendment and the First Amendment -- John F. Kennedy and school prayer -- "Soul Liberty," Roy's Rock, and the need for more Baptists -- The battle cry of "religious freedom."

"From athletes praising God to pastors using sport metaphors in the pulpit - the association between sport and religion is often considered incidental. Yet religion and sport have been tightly intertwined for millennia and continue to inform, shape, and critique one another. Moreover, sport, rather than being a solely secular activity, is one of the most important sites for debates over gender, race, capitalism, the media, and civil religion. Traditionally, scholarly writings on religion and sport have focused on the question of whether sport is a religion, using historical, philosophical, theological, and sociological insights to argue this matter. While these efforts sought to answer an important question, contemporary issues related to sports were neglected, such as globalization, commercialization, feminism, masculinity, critical race theory and the ethics of doping. This volume contains lively, up-to-date essays from leading figures in the field to fill this scholarly gap. It treats religion as an indispensable prism through which to view sports, and vice versa. This book is ideal for students approaching the topic of religion and sport. It will also be of interest to scholars studying sociology of religion, sociology of sport, religion and race, religion and gender, religion and politics, and sport in general"--

The stories gathered in these pages lay bare the power of the arts to unsettle and rework deeply ingrained religious beliefs and practices. This book grounds its narrative in the accounts of 82 Evangelicals who underwent a sea-change of religious identity through the intervention of the arts. "There never would have been an undoing of my conservative Evangelical worldview" confides one young man, "without my encounter with the transcendent work of Mark Rothko on that rainy afternoon in London's Tate Modern." "The characters in The Brothers Karamazov began to feel like family to me," reports another individual, "and the doubts of Ivan Karamazov slowly saturated my soul." As their stories unfold, the subjects of the study describe the arts as sources of, by turns, "defamiliarization," "comfort in uncertainty," "a stand-in for faith" and a "surrogate transcendence." Drawing on memoirs, interviews, and field notes, Philip Salim Francis explores the complex interrelationship of religion and art in the modern West, and offers an important new resource for on-going debates about the role of the arts in education and social life. - Publisher

Joseph Smith's presidential ambitions / Richard Lyman Bushman -- Unpopular sovereignty : Brigham Young and the U.S. government, 1847-1877 / John G. Turner -- Polygamy in the nation's capitol : Protestant women and the 1899 campaign against B.H. Roberts / Jana Riess -- Eternal progression : Mormonism and American progressivism / Matthew Bowman -- Ezra Taft Benson and the conservative turn of "those amazing Mormons" / Jan Shipps -- Testimony and theology : the Mormon struggle with America's civil religion / Russell Arben Fox -- Chosen land, chosen people : religious and american exceptionalism among the Mormons / Philip L. Barlow -- Like father, unlike son : the governors Romney, the Kennedy paradigm, and the Mormon question / Randall Balmer -- A politically peculiar people : how Mormons moved into and then out of the political mainstream / David E. Campbell, Christopher F. Karpowitz, and J. Quin Monson -- "Twice-told tale" : telling two histories of Mormon-black relations during the 2012 presidential election / Max Perry Mueller -- Mormon women talk politics / Claudia L. Bushman -- On the "underground" : what the Mormon "yes on 8" campaign reveals about the future of Mormons in American political life / Joanna Brooks -- Mitt, Mormonism, and the media : an unfamiliar faith takes the stage in the 2012 U.S. presidential election / Peggy Fletcher Stack