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02189aam a2200301Ii 4500 001 DFCF5434939111E7A673E95E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20170907010029 008 160422t20172017dcua b 000 0 eng d 010 $a 2017931991 020 $a 0935437479 020 $a 9780935437478 035 $a (OCoLC)947149655 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d IQU $d CFI $d OCLCF $d YDX $d LNT $d CDX $d IWA $d SILO 050 4 $a GV706.42 S635x 2017 100 1 $a Soltes, Ori Z., $e author. 245 10 $a God and the goalposts : $b a brief history of sports, religion, politics, war, and art / $c Ori Z. Soltes. 264 1 $a Washington ; $b Bartleby Press, $c [2017] 300 $a xiii, 325 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-307) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Religion, art, politics, war, and sports -- Sports, athletic heroes, and God in the shaping of Israelite history -- From war games to funerary games in epic Greek poetry: warrior-athletes in the Iliad -- The epic continuum: from Odysseus to Aeneas -- From lyric to tragic to comic: Pindar's heroic athletes and their poetic successors -- Gladiatorial contests from the pagan era to the early Christian era -- Sports and war in medieval Christendom: from jousting to crusading for God -- Sports and spirituality from the ancient Near East to the Far East and back -- Religion and sports within and beyond the Muslim world-- Jews in sports from Nahmanides in Barcelona to Mendoza in England -- Sports and Judaism since emancipation -- America from the Maya to the birth of "the national pastime" -- Twentieth-century American sports and its intersection among immigration, religion, and race -- God on the gridiron and elsewhere: from locker room to finish line -- Epilogues: Sports, religion, and politics: from old visual art to new stars of the pulpit and screen. 650 0 $a Sports $x History. $x History. 650 0 $a Art and religion $x History. 650 0 $a Sports $x History. $x History. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170907010509.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DFCF5434939111E7A673E95E97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search