The Spirit of the Game: American Christianity and Big-Time Sports
Paul Emory Putz
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2024
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9780190091095
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9780190091064
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This chapter shows the transformation of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) as it shifted from its mainline Protestant origins to a new base in the Sunbelt South. The FCA offered an organized expression of the South’s long-held obsession with masculinity, faith, and sports, formulated to fit into a post–Brown v.Board age of Sunbelt boosterism. By the end of the 1960s the FCA had become a civic institution in the sporting life of the region. The FCA’s southward shift had national resonance in two key ways. First, it fostered connections among white Southern Protestants, neoevangelicals, and middlebrow mainline Protestants, helping to unite the informal coalition that would receive the “evangelical” label in the 1970s. Second, it shaped the response of FCA leaders to a wave of Black athlete activism that emerged at the end of the 1960s, helping to construct a colorblind consensus on race.
Keywords: South, Sunbelt, civil rights movement, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Black athlete revolt, football, Atlanta, John Wooden, Dean Smith, Southern Baptist
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History of Religion Sports and Outdoor Recreation Christian Life and Practice US History since 1945
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