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Randall Balmer, an Episcopal priest and John Phillips Chair in Religion at Dartmouth College, chats with Trey Elling about PASSION PLAYS: HOW RELIGION SHAPED SPORTS IN NORTH AMERICA. Topics include:

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• Baseball as counterculture to the Industrial Revolution (2:32)
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• Football benefitting from the US Civil War (17:08)
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• Hockey as a metaphor for Canada (28:24)
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• Basketball\'s similarities to American urbanization (35:50)
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• Are sports the new opiate of the masses (43:56)
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