Religion and Sport in North America (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume contains lively, up-to-date essays from leading figures in the field which treat religion as an indispensable prism through which to view sports, and vice versa.This is ideal for students and scholars of sociology of religion, sociology of sport, religion and race, religion and gender, and religion and politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000636178
• Artikelnr.: 64313772

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