Religion and Sport in North America

Critical Essays for the Twenty-First Century
Herausgeber: Scholes, Jeffrey; Balmer, Randall

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 614g
• ISBN-13: 9780367857240
• ISBN-10: 0367857243
• Artikelnr.: 64104772

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Scholes is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Religious Diversity and Public Life at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA. Randall Balmer is John Phillips Chair in Religion at Dartmouth College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1 Evangelicalism and Sport 1 "There Is Talk of Black
Power": Christian Athletes and the Revolt of the Black Athlete 2 "The
Greatest Christian Movie of All Time": 300 and Spartan Masculinity as
Cultural Repertoire in Christian Mixed Martial Arts and Beyond 3 Forgiving
Freeze: Jerry Falwell Jr., Donald Trump, and the Making of Liberty
University Football Part 2 Sport as a Religio-cultural Vehicle 4
Structuring Sports, Structuring Community: The Islamic Society of Chester
County Debates a Basketball Court 5 Desiring "Deep Community": Formations
of Soccer and Evangelical Christianity in the British Columbia Christian
Soccer League 6 Sport, Religion, and Absence: The Subfield of Religion and
Sport as an Explanatory Tool for the Moment Part 3 Religion, Sport, and the
Market 7 Foucault for Heisman: College Football and the Liturgies of Power
8 "Be More Human": CrossFit, Reebok, and Sporting Consumerism 9 Fandom
Transfigured: Fantasy Football as Neoliberal Religion Part 4 Religion and
Sport through a Racial Frame 10 Ted Corbitt: The Once-forgotten and
Now-remembered Pioneer of American Distance Running 11 Savage Symbols:
Native American Mascots in the USA 12 Race, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, and
Religious Realism 13 ¿Dios Bendiga Whose América? Resisting the Ritual
Theologizing of Nation Postscript: White Hauntings, Black Hoops: The Ghosts
of Kyrie Irving