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Religion and Sports - Pittsburgh Campus

This guide will assist students in RELGST 1428 with their research.

Suggested Books A-L

American Jews and America's Game : Voices of a Growing Legacy in Baseball by Larry Ruttman; Martin Abramowitz (Introduction by); Allan H. Selig (Foreword by)
Call Number: online
ISBN: 0803264828
Publication Date: 2013-04-01
Ancient Roman Sports, A-Z by David Matz
Call Number: online
ISBN: 9781476671697
Publication Date: 2019-10-22
Baseball As a Road to God : Seeing Beyond the Game by John Sexton; Thomas Oliphant; Peter J. Schwartz
Call Number: GV867 .S58 2013
ISBN: 9781592407545
Publication Date: 2013-03-07
A Brief Theology of Sport by Lincoln Harvey
Call Number: online
ISBN: 0334044189
Publication Date: 2014-02-28
Catholic Perspectives on Sports by Patrick Kelly
Call Number: online
ISBN: 0809147955
Publication Date: 2012-11-01
Fair Play : The Ethics of Sport (4th ed.) by Robert L. Simon
Call Number: online
ISBN: 0429972202
Publication Date: 2018-09-03
Finding God Through Yoga : Paramahansa Yogananda and Modern American Religion in a Global Age by David J. Neumann
Call Number: online
ISBN: 9781469648620
Publication Date: 2019-03-18
The Fit Shall Inherit the Earth : A Theology of Sport and Fitness by Erik W. Dailey
Call Number: online
ISBN: 1532649274
Publication Date: 2018-10-17
Football in the Middle East : State, Society, and the Beautiful Game by Abdullah Al-Arian (Editor)
Call Number: online
ISBN: 9780197659670
Publication Date: 2022-09-01
From Ritual to Record : The Nature of Modern Sports by Allen Guttmann
Call Number: GV706.5 .G87 2004
ISBN: 0231133413
Publication Date: 2004-08-04
From Season to Season : Sports as American Religion by Joseph L. Price
Call Number: GV706.42 .F76 2001
ISBN: 0865546940
Publication Date: 2000-11-01
Games of the North American Indians by Stewart Culin
Call Number: E98.G2 C9 1975
ISBN: 0486231259
Publication Date: 2012-02-29
God in the Stadium : Sports and Religion in America by Robert J. Higgs
Call Number: online
ISBN: 1322597359
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Good Game : Christianity and the Culture of Sports by Shirl James Hoffman
Call Number: GV706.42 .H65 2010
ISBN: 9781932792102
Publication Date: 2010-02-28
Jews in the Gym : Judaism, Sports, and Athletics by Leonard J. Greenspoon (Editor)
Call Number: online
ISBN: 9781612492407
Publication Date: 2012-09-15
Lacrosse Legends of the First Americans by Thomas Vennum
Call Number: E98.F6 V46 2007
ISBN: 9780801886287
Publication Date: 2007-07-15

Suggested Books M-Z

The Meaning of Sports : Why Americans Watch Baseball, Football and Basketball, and What They See When They Do by Michael Mandelbaum
Call Number: online
ISBN: 9781586483302
Publication Date: 2005-05-11
The Mesoamerican Ballgame by Vernon L. Scarborough (Editor); David R. Wilcox (Editor)
Call Number: F1219.3.G3 M47 1991
ISBN: 0816511802
Publication Date: 1991-09-01
Muscular Christianity : Embodying the Victorian Age by Donald E. Hall (Editor); Gillian Beer (Contribution by)
Call Number: PR788 M36M87 1994
ISBN: 0521453186
Publication Date: 1994-09-15
Muslim Women and Sport by Tansin Benn (Editor); Gertrud Pfister (Editor); Haifaa Jawad (Editor)
Call Number: online
ISBN: 1134008503
Publication Date: 2010-07-12
Passion Plays : How Religion Shaped Sports in North America by Randall Balmer
Call Number: online
ISBN: 9781469670065
Publication Date: 2022-09-20
Playing for God : Evangelical Women and the Unintended Consequences of Sports Ministry by Annie Blazer
Call Number: online
ISBN: 1479818135
Publication Date: 2015-07-24
Playing with God : Religion and Modern Sport by William J. Baker
Call Number: online
ISBN: 0674024214
Publication Date: 2007-04-15
The Promise Keepers : Essays on Masculinity and Christianity by Dane S. Claussen (Editor)
Call Number: BV960 .P76 2000
ISBN: 9780786407002
Publication Date: 1999-11-01
The Prophetic Dimension of Sport by Terry Shoemaker (Editor)
Call Number: online
ISBN: 3030022927
Publication Date: 2018-11-08
Religion and Sport in Japan by Zachary T. Smith (Editor); Eduardo Gonzalez de la Fuente (Contribution by); Eric Teixeira Mendes (Contribution by); Andreas Niehaus (Contribution by); Alexander Vesey (Contribution by); Dennis J. Frost (Editor); Stephen G. Covell (Editor); Natsuko Saka (Contribution by); Annie Blazer (Contribution by); Christoph Reichenbaecher (Contribution by); W. Puck Brecher (Contribution by); Robin Kietlinski (Contribution by); Paul Droubie (Contribution by)
Call Number: online
ISBN: 9780824898571
Publication Date: 2024-09-30
Religion and Sport in North America : Critical Essays for the Twenty-First Century by Jeffrey Scholes (Editor); Randall Balmer (Editor)
Call Number: online
ISBN: 9781000636123
Publication Date: 2022-09-13
Religion and Sports : An Introduction and Case Studies by Rebecca Alpert
Call Number: online
ISBN: 0231165706
Publication Date: 2015-05-05
Religion in the Lives of African Americans : Social, Psychological, and Health Perspectives by Robert Joseph Taylor; Linda Marie Chatters; Jeff Levin
Call Number: online
ISBN: 1452263078
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Spirit and Sport : Religion and the Fragile Athletic Body in Popular Culture by Sean Samuel O'Neil
Call Number: online
ISBN: 9781621907343
Publication Date: 2022-10-21
Sport, Physical Education, and Social Justice : Religious, Sociological, Psychological, and Capability Perspectives by Nick J. Watson (Editor); Grant Jarvie (Editor); Andrew Parker (Editor)
Call Number: online
ISBN: 9781000175141
Publication Date: 2020-09-01
Sport, Spirituality, and Religion : New Intersections by Tracy J. Trothen (Guest Editor)
Call Number: online
ISBN: 9783039218301
Publication Date: 2019-11-22
Sport and Christianity : A Sign of the Times in the Light of Faith by Christoph Hübenthal (Editor); Dietmar Mieth (Editor); Norbert Müller (Editor); Kevin Lixey (Editor)
Call Number: online
ISBN: 9780813219936
Publication Date: 2012-11-30
Sport and Spirituality : An Introduction by Jim Parry; Simon Robinson; Nick Watson; Mark Nesti
Call Number: GV706.42 .S656 2007
ISBN: 9780415404822
Publication Date: 2007-08-23
A Sport of Life and Death : The Mesoamerican Ballgame by E. Michael Whittington
Call Number: F1219.3.G3 S66 2001
ISBN: 0500051089
Publication Date: 2001-09-01
Sports and Christianity : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives by Nick J. Watson (Editor); Andrew Parker (Editor)
Call Number: online
ISBN: 1136192891
Publication Date: 2012-10-12
Sports and Play in Christian Theology by John Tucker (Editor, Contribution by); Philip Halstead (Editor, Contribution by); Robert Ellis (Contribution by); Stephen Garner (Contribution by); Myk Habets (Contribution by); Sarah Harris (Contribution by); Peter Lineham (Contribution by); Simon Moetara (Contribution by); B. Grant Stewart (Contribution by); Steven N. Waller (Contribution by)
Call Number: GV706.42 .S66 2021
ISBN: 1978711433
Publication Date: 2020-11-24
The Sports Gene : Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance by David Epstein
Call Number: RC1235 .E58 2013
ISBN: 9781591845119
Publication Date: 2013-08-01
The Wrestler's Body : Identity and Ideology in North India by Joseph S. Alter
Call Number: online
ISBN: 0520076974
Publication Date: 1992-08-03
Youth Sport & Spirituality : Catholic Perspectives by Patrick Kelly (Editor)
Call Number: online
ISBN: 9780268024031
Publication Date: 2018-01-01
Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel; Daisetz T. Suzuki (Introduction by)
Call Number: BL1480.Z54 H5
ISBN: 9780375705090
Publication Date: 1999-01-26