Tag: Hunter M. Hampton

From the game’s early days, college football and a strain of muscular Christianity built a mutually reinforcing culture that taught lessons in America’s dominant religious, gendered, and racial belief systems. In his book The Gridiron Gospel: Faith and College Football in Twentieth-Century America (University of Illinois Press) Hunter M. Hampton analyzes the impact of football on Christian college campuses. Brian Hillman is our reviewer, and although he would have liked to hear more of student voices and views, he still finds Hampton’s effort to be an enjoyable-to-read monograph..

The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Sister Rose Ann Fleming: An Unlikely Point Guard and Gender-Holistic Servant-Leader by Dung Q. Tran.