What makes a man?: Religion, sport and negotiating masculine identity in the promise keepers

With God on their Side: Sport in the Service of Religion

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 160-176

  Randels, George D ^a   Beal, Becky ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203995341     Document Type: Chapter

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