Bringing Sport into the Game: New Scholarship at the Intersection of Christianity and Sports in the 20th-Century United States

American Society of Church History 24
Friday, January 6, 2017: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Room 702 (Colorado Convention Center, Meeting Room Level)
Chair:
Matthew Avery Sutton, Washington State University
Papers:
Saints Embracing Savagery: BYU Football and the Making of Mormon Manhood
Hunter Hampton, University of Missouri–Columbia
The Vanishing Idea of Christian Manhood in the Midcentury YMCA
Seth Dowland, Pacific Lutheran University
Protestant, Catholic, Mormon: Forging a Broad Christian Alliance through Sport in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, 1954–70
Paul Putz, Baylor University
Taming the Savage Trade: Resistance and Religious Conversion in Latino/a Boxing
Arlene M. Sánchez-Walsh, Azusa Pacific University
Comment:
Annie Blazer, College of William and Mary
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