e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Booklist Review
Library Journal Review
Publisher Weekly Review
More Content
More by this author
Sexton, John.
Subjects
Baseball -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Sexton, John.
by title:
Baseball as a road t...
by call number:
796.357 S518b
Search the Web
Sexton, John.
Baseball -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
MARC Display
Baseball as a road to God : seeing beyond the game / John Sexton with Thomas Oliphant and
Peter
J
.
Schwartz
; [foreword by Doris Kearns Goodwin].
by
Sexton, John.
Gotham Books, 2013.
Call #:
796.357 S518b
Subjects
Baseball -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
ISBN:
9781592407545 (hbk.)
1592407544 (hbk.)
Description:
xiv, 242 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes filmography (p. 226), bibliographical references (p. [223]-226) and index.
Contents:
The Knothole gang -- First inning : sacred space and sacred time -- Second inning : faith -- Third inning : doubt -- Fourth inning : conversion -- Fifth inning : miracles -- Sixth inning : blessings and curses -- Seventh inning : saints and sinners -- Seventh-inning stretch -- Eighth inning : community -- Ninth inning : nostalgia (and the myth of the eternal return) -- The clubhouse.
Summary:
Applying to the secular activity of baseball a form of inquiry usually reserved for the study of religion, Sexton explores common ground between the game and what we all recognize as religion: sacred places and time, faith and doubt, blessings and curses, and more.
Other authors:
Oliphant, Thomas.
Schwartz
,
Peter
J
.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Sackville Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
796.357 S518b
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.