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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Two National Religions -- What This Book Does -- 1 The Terrific Urge To Win -- Amos Alonzo Stagg And Classic Muscular Christianity -- Branch Rickey And Midwestern Muscular Christianity -- Middlebrow Engagement With Sports -- 2 Unless The Playing Interferes With The Praying -- Moral Purity And Missionary Idealism -- Regional Insiders -- Respectability And Race Advancement -- 3 Christian Democracy Is Being Tackled For A Loss -- Defining The American Way With Sports Mobilizing Religion -- The Fca Idea -- Gathering The Christian Athletes -- 4 To Be An Athlete Is Different -- For Christ And His Church -- The Subculture Of Sports -- Tensions And Departure -- 5 Scoring Heavily In The South -- Southernization -- The Fca And The Civil Rights Movement -- Converging White Protestant Communities -- Responding To The Black Athlete Revolt -- 6 Call It Sportianity -- Sports Evangelism For The Big Time -- Breaking Into Professional Sports -- The Neoevangelical Spirituality Of Pro Sports Ministry -- Sports And War -- 7 Doing Sports God's Way -- Growth -- Gurus Culture Warriors -- Christian Athletes And The Christian Right -- Women As Christian Athletes -- Sexuality -- 8 Jesse Jackson Has Reason To Be Concerned -- Race And Politics -- Into The City -- Racial Reconciliation And Sports -- Race And Ministry In Professional Sports -- Epilogue -- Two Quarterbacks Who Knelt -- Notes -- Abbreviations For Manuscript Collections -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Epilogue -- Index Paul Emory Putz. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.