Gridiron Gospel: Faith and College Football in Twentieth-Century America a small town where professors

a small town where professors moonlight as farmers

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The relationship between human and nonhuman life provides a central focus to the work

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Gridiron Gospel: Faith and College Football in Twentieth-Century America a small town where professorsFrom 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