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Event	Making Pro Sports Kosher
When	Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 1:00pm
Where	Intercultural Center CCAS Boardroom (ICC 241)
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Details	Making Pro Sports Kosher: Sports-World Christianity and its Implications for Religious Minorities The infusion of evangelical Christianity in sports comes at a scarcely examined cost to the religiously diverse communities that support major league franchises, particularly Jewish (and other religious minority) populations. Tom Krattenmaker, the author of the new book 'Onward Christian Athletes,' will explore the ways that Jewish concerns and rights have been too often ignored--indeed, violated--by evangelical activity in pro sports, and will begin a long-overdue discussion of measures to ensure a more consistently respectful, pluralistic, and unifying form of faith in the game. Tom Krattenmaker is a Portland, Oregon-based writer specializing in religion in public life and associate vice president for public affairs at Lewis & Clark College in Portland. He writes regularly for USA Today’s “On Religion” commentary page as a member of the newspaper’s editorial Board of Contributors, and his work has also appeared in Salon, the Los Angeles Times, the Oregonian, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. Krattenmaker was a winner in the opinion-writing category in the 2009 American Academy of Religion journalism awards. http://www12.georgetown.edu/sfs/rsvp/index.cfm?Action=View&EventID=2459
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