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Sports in Zion : Mormon recreation, 1890-1940

Title
Sports in Zion : Mormon recreation, 1890-1940 / Richard Ian Kimball.
Author
Kimball, Richard Ian.
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2003.

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Description
x, 217 p., [6] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Sport and society
Subject
  • Latter Day Saints > Recreation > History
  • Recreation > Utah > History
  • Latter Day Saints > Social life and customs
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-212) and index.
Contents
"Not playing without a purpose" : the construction of a Mormon recreation ideology -- "A strong arm to the church" : recreation building boom -- "For the uplifting and the betterment of the youth of Israel" : athletics, socialization, and the "selling of the word of wisdom" -- "A means of preserving the memory of the Mormon pioneers" : LDS recreation in the great outdoors -- To make the most of leisure : recreation responds in a depression decade.
ISBN
0252028570 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2002156585
OCLC
  • ocm51305940
  • SCSB-1304861
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library