Christianity and Social Scientific Perspectives on Sport (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Gibbons, Tom; Braye, Stuart

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book demonstrates the diversity of current research occurring in the area of Christianity and social scientific perspectives on sport in order to bridge divisions between various social science disciplines and theology or religious studies. The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue in Sport in Soci

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 142
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429859403
• Artikelnr.: 59743226

Autorenporträt

Tom Gibbons is a Senior Lecturer in Sports Studies at Teesside University, UK, and has authored three books, including: English National Identity and Football Fan Culture: Who are you? (2014); The Impact of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games (co-editor with Kevin Dixon, 2015); and, Sport and English National Identity in a 'Disunited Kingdom' (co-editor with Dominic Malcolm, 2017). Tom has also published numerous journal articles and book chapters on topics including disability and sport; national identity, globalisation and sport; religion and sport; and various sporting subcultures. Stuart Braye is a Senior Lecturer in Sports Studies at Teesside University, UK. He has a Master's degree in Sport Management from Northumbria University, UK, and has submitted his PhD titled 'A mockery of equality': The relationship between the Paralympic Games and disability equality in the UK. He is a former Paralympic athlete and bronze medallist (Barcelona 1992) and currently has six journal articles and two book chapters on the relationship between Paralympic/disability sport and critical disability studies. His current research project is on the views of disabled children/young people and their parents on experiences in physical education.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Christianity and social scientific perspectives on sport: introduction
to the special issue 2. Christianity as public religion: a justification
for using a Christian sociological approach for studying the social
scientific aspects of sport 3. Can sport be regarded as 'cultural liturgy'?
Recognizing the significance of the liturgical frame for the social
scientific study of sport 4. Redeeming the habitus: a Christian
sociological approach to embodiment in sport 5. Tanni Grey-Thompson - 'The
one that got away': a theological analysis of foeticide, infanticide and
the deviant Paralympic success story 6. 'Jesus Saves' and 'Clothed in
Christ': athletic religious apparel in the Christian CrossFit community 7.
'We must not engage in the blind glorification of sport': Christian
orthodox youths negotiate dominant societal and alternative Reformed sport
discourses 8. Re-characterizing confidence because of religious and
personal rituals in sport: findings from a qualitative study of 15 year old
student-athletes 9. Single, separate or unified? Exploring Christian
academicians' views of the body, sport and religious experience