Religion and the Rise of Sport in England
Awards:   Winner of Shortlisted, 2023 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize, British Society of Sport History.
Author:   Hugh McLeod (Emeritus Professor of Church History, Emeritus Professor, University of Birmingham)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780192859983


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   10 November 2022
Format:   Hardback
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  • Winner of Shortlisted, 2023 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize, British Society of Sport History.

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Author:   Hugh McLeod (Emeritus Professor of Church History, Emeritus Professor, University of Birmingham)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.630kg
ISBN:  

9780192859983


ISBN 10:   0192859986
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   10 November 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: 'E Mun be Baited, it's a Rule': Old and New Sporting Worlds 2: 'Puritanic Precision and Propriety': The Warfare between Religion and Sport 3: 'Every Man is Born with a Body as well as an Intellect and a Soul': Peace Talks Begin 4: 'The Affinity between Christianity and Athletics' 5: 'He is a Lover of all Legitimate Sports': Affinities and Taboos 6: 'Our Congregations have Emigrated to the Playing Fields, the Golf Course and the River': Sport and Secularization 7: 'Jesus Christ was a Sportsman': The Era of Diffusive Christianity 8: 'A Passion not merely a Recreation': The Religion of Sport 9: Religions in the Age of Sport Conclusion Bibliography

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immensely fascinating...astonishingly wide-ranging... Here is a work unlikely to be soon surpassed. * John Pridmore, Church Times * Genuinely enlightening...The prose is bouncy, engaging and a treat for anyone. * Fred Kelly, The Tablet * an excellent book * Peter Costello, Irish Catholic * highly entertaining, informative and balanced * Dr Mark Chapman, Catholic Herald * careful, balanced, and wide-ranging book * Robert Colls, Society *


immensely fascinating...astonishingly wide-ranging... Here is a work unlikely to be soon surpassed. * John Pridmore, Church Times * Genuinely enlightening...The prose is bouncy, engaging and a treat for anyone. * Fred Kelly, The Tablet * an excellent book * Peter Costello, Irish Catholic * careful, balanced, and wide-ranging book * Robert Colls, Society *


Genuinely enlightening...The prose is bouncy, engaging and a treat for anyone. * Fred Kelly, The Tablet * an excellent book * Peter Costello, Irish Catholic * careful, balanced, and wide-ranging book * Robert Colls, Society *


Author Information

Hugh McLeod is Emeritus Professor of Church History at the University of Birmingham. He was President of the Ecclesiastical History Society 2002-3 and of CIHEC (international organisation of historians of Christianity) 2005-10. He has held visiting positions at the Universities of Amsterdam, Uppsala, Münster, Mainz, and Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies and received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Lund and Helsinki and the Open University. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy 2008.

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