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  • Chapter 18 - Sunday Sports and the Re/constitution of the Christian Community and the Social Order

  • from Holy Times
  • Peter Lake, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
  • Book:
    On Laudianism
    Published online:
    05 October 2023
    Print publication:
    19 October 2023, pp 235-245

  • Summary

    This chapter analyses the Laudian attitude to Sunday sports, in a discussion designed to include the meaning of the altar and the sacrament in the constitution of the Christian community. Allowing Sunday sports re-inscribed the line between the secular and the spiritual as defined by the Laudian notions of holy places and holy times. It allowed affirmations of two different versions of the social body to be made on the same day, the one reinforcing the other, and it also prevented the day being dominated, and the social body being divided, by the essentially private, household-based, religious observances of the puritans. Here was affirmation of a broad-based Laudian version of the Christian community being enabled and maintained by the rites and observances of the national church against the divisive practices and beliefs of the puritans.