#287 - Randall Balmer on PASSION PLAYS
Books on Pod with Trey Elling
English - September 29, 2022 12:41 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBooks Arts health fitness business lifestyle entrepreneur marketing entrepreneurship interview wellness nutrition Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Randall Balmer, an Episcopal priest and John Phillips Chair in Religion at Dartmouth College, chats with Trey Elling about PASSION PLAYS: HOW RELIGION SHAPED SPORTS IN NORTH AMERICA. Topics include:
Baseball as counterculture to the Industrial Revolution (2:32)
Football benefitting from the US Civil War (17:08)
Hockey as a metaphor for Canada (28:24)
Basketball's similarities to American urbanization (35:50)
Are sports the new opiate of the masses (43:56)