Gridiron Gospel: Faith and College Football in Twentieth-Century America Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth

Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction - One of the New York Public Library's Ten Best Books of the Year

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Gridiron Gospel: Faith and College Football in Twentieth-Century America Finalist for the PEN/John KennethFrom the game's early days, college football and a strain of muscular Christianity built a mutually reinforcing culture that taught lessons in America's dominant religious, gendered, and racial belief systems. Christians of many denominations embraced the game to shape and reshape their faith to meet the changing social demands of the twentieth century. Hunter M. Hampton analyzes the impact of football on Christian college campuses. Baptists and