Rounding the Bases
Subtitle: Baseball And Religion in America (Sports and Religion)
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: August 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780865549999
Subjects: Social aspects; Sports & Recreation; Religion - Christian Living; Civil religion; Religion - Christian Life; Sports; Sociology of Sports; Religious aspects; Baseball - General; Christian Life - Recreational Activities; Christianity - Christian Life - Recreational Activities; United States; Philosophy; Baseball
Description: "After identifying early conflicts between churches and baseball in the late-nineteenth century, Joseph Price examines the appropriation of baseball by the House of David, an early twentieth-century millennial Protestant community in southern Michigan. 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." "In various ways Rounding the Bases charts new territory in the literature about baseball and religion. This book develops a sustained sociological argument for the conclusion that baseball is "a distinct denomination of American civil religion.""--Jacket.