While God’s name is invoked and Jesus’s sacrifice praised in the face of one of the most pointed examples of mortality in sport, worship itself appears to be given to NASCAR and the cultural praise located in American identity.
Articles by Doug Thompson
Douglas Thompson is Associate Professor of History and Southern Studies at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. He has a book out this May titled Richmond’s Priests and Prophets: Race, Religion, and Social Change in the Civil Rights Era (University of Alabama Press). His current book-length project is “A Journey of Conscience: Martin Luther King Jr., the Vietnam War, and the Struggle for the American Soul” is under consideration for publication.