Dr. Joshua Coleman presents an enlightening depiction of what, in the heyday of college football in the American South during the 1960s through the 1980s, was the close and revelatory interconnection between the three key cultural factors of (1) college football itself, (2) genuine non-dogmatic religious practice, and (3) authentic community-building politics. According to the author of this fine text, in our current age - the age of modern technological isolation and self-absorption - it is precisely such interconnections of prophetic icons, true religiousness, and genuine politics that we have lost. Would that we may build them again!

Frank Seeburger, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Denver, US

Avoiding the all-too-common functional and substantial equivalencies between sport and religion that capture neither sport nor religion, Joshua Coleman accomplishes a noble task here. Losing My Religion manages to retain the meaning and gravity of relevant theological concepts because of a bygone era of college football in the South, not despite it. This is a book that carries theoretical freight into an arena (and onto a field) that sorely lacks it.

Jeffrey Scholes, Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Religious Diversity and Public Life, University of Colorado, US