The faith of fifty million

By Christopher Hodge Evans, William R. Herzog

Subjects: Baseball--social aspects, Civil religion, Religious aspects, Sports, united states, Baseball, Sports--religious aspects, 796.357/0973, Gv867.6 .f35 2002, Soziologie, Sports--united states--religious aspects, Honkbal, Culturele aspecten, Baseball--social aspects--united states, Sports, Civil religion--united states, Baseball, social aspects, Sports, religious aspects, Social aspects

Description: Features essays by religion scholars who analyze the relation of baseball and theology in American culture. Topics include issues of national identity, baseball and civil religion, "saints and sinners, " baseball and the American Dream in relation to racial integration, women and baseball, baseball as metaphor, and baseball as spiritual autobiography.