FAITH OF FIFTY MILLION: Baseball, Religion, and American Culture by Christopher H. Evans & William R. Herzog II ($19.95)*

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The Faith of Fifty Million features essays by religion scholars who analyze the relationship between baseball and theology in American culture. Topics include: the sense of national identity, baseball and civil religion, "saints and sinners," baseball and the American Dream with regard to racial integration, women and baseball, baseball as metaphor, and baseball as spiritual autobiography. Readers will love this fascinating intersection of baseball, race, American civil religion, and contemporary sports culture.

Christopher H. Evans is Associate Professor of Church History and Director of United Methodist Studies at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School in Rochester, New York. He is editor of The Social Gospel Today (Westminster John Knox Press).

William R. Herzog II is Crozer Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School in Rochester, New York. He is the author of Parables as Subversive Speech: Jesus as Pedagogue of the Oppressed and Jesus, Justice, and the Reign of: A Ministry of Liberation, both published by Westminster John Knox Press.

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