Religion Of Sports

Author : Jeffrey Scholes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135121354
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Sports in American Culture written by Jeffrey Scholes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion and Sports in American Culture explores the relationship between religion and modern sports in America. Whether found in the religious purpose of ancient Olympic Games, in curses believed to plague the Chicago Cubs, or in the figure of Tim Tebow, religion and sports have been and are still tightly intertwined. While there is widespread suspicion that sports are slowly encroaching on the territory historically occupied by religion, Scholes and Sassower assert that sports are not replacing religion and that neither is sports a religion. Instead, the authors look at the relationship between sports and religion in America from a post-secular perspective that looks at both discourses as a part of the same cultural web. In this way each institution is able to maintain its own integrity, legitimacy, and unique expression of cultural values as they relate to each other. Utilizing important themes that intersect both religion and sports, Scholes and Sassower illuminate the complex and often publicly contentious relationship between the two. Appropriate for both classroom use and for the interested non-specialist, Religion and Sports in American Culture brings pilgrimage, sacrifice, relics, and redemption together in an unexpected cultural continuity.

Author : Rebecca T. Alpert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231165716
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Sports written by Rebecca T. Alpert and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Shirl J. Hoffman
Publisher : Human Kinetics Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport and Religion written by Shirl J. Hoffman and published by Human Kinetics Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents the best of the literature available on the relationship between sport and religion. The collection includes ground-breaking studies as well as recent articles from popular and scholarly publications. Sport and Religion is organized into four parts that - consider the case for and against sport as religion, - examine the potential of the sport experience as a path to religious insight, - analyze the significance of the pervasiveness of religious gestures in sport, and - explore the impact of religious views on perceptions and behaviors in sport.

Author : Brad Schultz
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498514421
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sport and Religion in the Twenty-First Century written by Brad Schultz and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0520965221
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Popular Culture in America, Third Edition written by Bruce David Forbes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Joseph L. Price
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865546943
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Season to Season written by Joseph L. Price and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In From Season to Season: Sports as American Religion, nine scholars of religion and theology explore the relationship between religion and sports in American popular culture and the role of sports as religion.

Author : Michael Novak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 156833009X
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Joy of Sports written by Michael Novak and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1994 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...an exhilarating exercise full of uncanny insights..." - Publishers Weekly

Author : Gotham Chopra
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501198092
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion of Sports written by Gotham Chopra and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A memoir-meets-manifesto about the role of sports as its own religion that gives readers an inside look into the athletes, teams, and fans that inspire worldwide devotion"--

Author : Gotham Chopra
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501198114
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion of Sports written by Gotham Chopra and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the sports documentarian and executive producer of the docuseries The Religion of Sports, a memoir-meets-manifesto about the overwhelming power of sports and how they provide meaning and purpose in people’s lives all over the world. Sports is a religion. This isn’t a metaphor—sports is a living, evolving religion populated by true believers, who go on pilgrimages to sacred sites (Fenway Park), witness miracles and mythologies (Michael Jordan does not abide by gravity’s rules), observe rituals (Lebron’s “chalk toss” before any game), and, most importantly, form communities around shared beliefs (Odessa, Texas, the town made famous by Friday Night Lights). From Gotham Chopra—a lifelong diehard sports fan who also happens to be the son of world-renowned spiritualist Deepak Chopra—comes a compelling and incisive exploration demonstrating how heavily sports and religion are intertwined. With an endless list of intimate anecdotes from sports luminaries like Tom Brady, Serena Williams, Lebron James, Stephen Curry, and more, Gotham weaves an entirely unique thread linking the world’s wisdom tradition with an evolving and powerful sports faith. Passionate and inspiring, The Religion of Sports is not just for diehard sports fans, but also for anyone who’s ever believed in something greater than themselves.

Author : Charles S. Prebish
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Sport written by Charles S. Prebish and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1993 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prebish offers a thoughtful look at sport as a religious experience and argues that sport has become an American religion. The first section of the work contains three chapters that provide a definitional, theoretical, and methodological frame for examining sport as religion. The five chapters that follow, each written by an authority in the field, treat different aspects of the religious dimension of sport. These chapters represent the most important writings on sport as a religious experience, and each author offers a full and thoughtful discussion rather than a cursory overview. A final chapter by Prebish closes the work. The first chapter of the book challenges traditional assumptions about religion and encourages the reader to reconsider what religion is. The second chapter examines the difficulty of defining sport, and the third probes the close relationship between sport and religion. The anthology that follows contains chapters that examine religion and sport from sociological, historical, theological, philosophical, and psychological perspectives. A concluding bibliography lists material for further reading.