#287 - Randall Balmer on PASSION PLAYS
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)
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