Rounding The Bases: Baseball And Religion In America (H708/Mrc)

Name: Rounding The Bases: Baseball And Religion In America (H708/Mrc)
Brand: Mercer University Press
SKU: 9780865549999
Price: 15322 HUF
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Szerző: Joseph L Price

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Kiadó: Mercer University Press

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After identifying early conflicts between churches and baseball in the late-nineteenth century, Pric...

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Szerző

Joseph L Price

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2006

oldal

260

EAN

9780865549999

ISBN

9780865549999

Enbook ID

06373344

Kiadó

Mercer University Press

Súly

544

Méretek

236 x 165 x 30

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After identifying early conflicts between churches and baseball in the late-nineteenth century, Price examines the appropriation of baseball by the House of David, an early twentieth-century millennial Protestant community in southern Michigan. Turning then from historic intersections between baseball and religion, two chapters focus on the ways that baseball reelects religious myths. First, the omphalos myth about the origin and ordering of the world is reflected in the rituals and rules of the game. Then the myth of curses is explored in the culture of superstition that underlies the game. At the heart of the book is a sustained argument about how baseball functions as an American civil religion, affirming and sanctifying American identity, especially during periods of national crises such as wars and terrorist attacks. Building on this analysis of baseball as an America's civil religion, two chapters draw upon novels by W. P. Kinsella and David James Duncan to explore the sacramental potential of baseball and to align baseball with apocalyptic possibilities. The final chapter serves as a full confession, interpreting baseball affiliation stories as conversion narratives. In various ways

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