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Defining the “American Way” with Sports Defining the “American Way” with Sports
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Mobilizing Religion Mobilizing Religion
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The FCA Idea The FCA Idea
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Gathering the Christian Athletes Gathering the Christian Athletes
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3 Christian Democracy Is Being Tackled for a Loss
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Published:August 2024
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This chapter looks at Don McClanen’s founding of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA), which formally launched the Christian athlete movement as a new subculture within sports. It shows how historical and cultural forces helped to pave the way to the FCA’s founding, with the global crises of the 1930s and 1940s heightening the significance of religion and sports to American identity. It also shows how the religious nationalism of the Cold War influenced the FCA. While the movement that the FCA launched would eventually become identified with evangelicalism, its origins were driven primarily by middlebrow culture and mainline Protestant institutions. This gave the FCA an aura of respectability and ecumenicity that broadened its appeal, enabling it to create a new community of Christian athletes and coaches in big-time sports.
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