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Author | : Eric Bain-Selbo |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2016-09-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1472506987 |
Readers are introduced to a range of theoretical and methodological approaches used to understand religion – including sociology, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology – and how they can be used to understand sport as a religious phenomenon. Topics include the formation of powerful communities among fans and the religious experience of the fan, myth, symbols and rituals and the sacrality of sport, and sport and secularization. Case studies are taken from around the world and include the Olympics (ancient and modern), football in the UK, the All Blacks and New Zealand national identity, college football in the American South, and gymnastics. Ideal for classroom use, Understanding Sport as a Religious Phenomenon illuminates the nature of religion through sports phenomena and is a much-needed contribution to the field of religion and popular culture.
Author | : Eric Bain-Selbo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781474205771 |
"Readers are introduced to a range of theoretical and methodological approaches used to understand religion - including sociology, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology - and how they can be used to understand sport as a religious phenomenon. Topics include the formation of powerful communities among fans and the religious experience of the fan, myth, symbols and rituals and the sacrality of sport, and sport and secularization. Case studies are taken from around the world and include the Olympics (ancient and modern), football in the UK, the All Blacks and New Zealand national identity, college football in the American South, and gymnastics."--Publisher's website.
Author | : Brad Schultz |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2015-12-16 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1498514421 |
This book examines the relationship between sport and religion with regard to twenty-first century topics such as race, fandom, education, and culture. The contributors provide new insights into the people, movements, and events that define the complex relationship between sport and religion around the world. A wonderful addition to any academic course on religion, sports, ethics, or culture as a whole.
Author | : Bruce David Forbes |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2017-03-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0520965221 |
The connection between popular culture and religion is an enduring part of American life. With seventy-five percent new content, the third edition of this multifaceted and popular collection has been revised and updated throughout to provide greater religious diversity in its topics and address critical developments in the study of religion and popular culture. Ideal for classroom use, this expanded volume gives increased attention to the implications of digital culture and the increasingly interactive quality of popular culture provides a framework to help students understand and appreciate the work in diverse fields, methods, and perspectives contains an updated introduction, discussion questions, and other instructional tools
Author | : Eric Bain-Selbo |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 2016-11-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3319500597 |
This book discusses violence and its connection with religion, sport and popular culture. It highlights the religious dimensions of violence and the role of violence in the religion and culture of the American South. Extending into popular culture, it then makes the case that sport—particularly American football—is a cultural phenomenon in the South with close ties with religion and violence, and that American football has come to play a central role in the civil religion of the South, fueled in part by its violent nature. The book concludes by drawing important lessons from this case study—lessons that help us to see both religion and sport in a new light.
Author | : Rebecca T. Alpert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Sports |
ISBN | : 9780231165716 |
DivRebecca T. Alpert is professor of religion at Temple University. She is the author of Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition, which won a Lambda Literary Award and Award for Scholarship from the Jewish Women's Caucus of the Association for Women in Psychology; Out of Left Field: Jews and Black Baseball; and Whose Torah? A Concise Guide to Progressive Judaism./div
Author | : Kevin Lixey |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2012-11-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0813219930 |
Sport and Christianity explores the connections between these two seemingly disparate phenomena. It reflects on what the fascination for sport reveals about the human person and to what degree sporting activities are compatible with, and can even advance, the church's mission.
Author | : Tracy J. Trothen |
Publisher | : MDPI |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2019-11-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3039218301 |
The research studies included in this Special Issue highlight the fundamental contribution of the knowledge of environmental history to conscious and efficient environment conservation and management. The long-term perspective of the dynamics that govern the human–climate ecosystem is becoming one of the main focuses of interest in biological and earth system sciences. Multidisciplinary bio-geo-archaeo investigations into the underlying processes of human impact on the landscape are crucial to envisage possible future scenarios of biosphere responses to global warming and biodiversity losses. This Special Issue seeks to engage an interdisciplinary dialog on the dynamic interactions between nature and society, focusing on long-term environmental data as an essential tool for better-informed landscape management decisions to achieve an equilibrium between conservation and sustainable resource exploitation.
Author | : Jeffrey Scholes |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2022-09-13 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1000636178 |
From athletes praising God to pastors using sport metaphors in the pulpit, the association between sport and religion in North America is often considered incidental. Yet religion and sport have been tightly intertwined for millennia and continue to inform, shape, and critique one another. Moreover, sport, rather than being a solely secular activity, is one of the most important sites for debates over gender, race, capitalism, the media, and civil religion. Traditionally, scholarly writings on religion and sport have focused on the question of whether sport is a religion, using historical, philosophical, theological, and sociological insights to argue this matter. While these efforts sought to answer an important question, contemporary issues related to sports were neglected, such as globalization, commercialization, feminism, masculinity, critical race theory, and the ethics of doping. This volume contains lively, up-to-date essays from leading figures in the field to fill this scholarly gap. It treats religion as an indispensable prism through which to view sports, and vice versa. This book is ideal for students approaching the topic of religion and sport. It will also be of interest to scholars studying sociology of religion, sociology of sport, religion and race, religion and gender, religion and politics, and sport in general.
Author | : Mark Mullane |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Running |
ISBN | : |
"In 1976 sportswriter Frank Deford coined the term “Sportianity” to define the devotion found in sports and how it had created a new religious phenomenon. The word itself never caught on, but the meaning behind it stuck. Many authors from a variety of disciplines have contested that sports themselves should be considered a secular religion. However, most of the discussion has centered around popular team sports like soccer, football, and baseball. This research aims to position the sport of distance running in this context as well. This research will focus on a cross-cultural representation of the sport and its place in human society. Running will be examined across the globe, using such locations as Japan, East Africa, and North America to give a comprehensive understanding of how different cultures practiced and continue to embrace this sport with its variety of beliefs, rituals, and communities. Through this understanding of religion, it can be concluded that the sport of long distance running demonstrates the qualities of a secular religion, and should be considered as one."-Abstract