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Playing for God - Evangelical Women and the Unintended Consequences of Sports Ministry (Hardcover)
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Playing for God - Evangelical Women and the Unintended Consequences of Sports Ministry (Hardcover)
Series: North American Religions
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When sports ministry first emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, its
founders imagined male celebrity athletes as powerful salespeople
who could deliver a message of Christian strength: "If athletes can
endorse shaving cream, razor blades, and cigarettes, surely they
can endorse the Lord, too," reasoned Fellowship of Christian
Athletes founder Don McClanen. But combining evangelicalism and
sport did much more than serve as an advertisement for religion: it
gave athletes the opportunity to think about the embodied
experiences of sport as a way to experience intimate connection
with the divine. As sports ministry developed, it focused on
individual religious experiences and downplayed celebrity sales
power, opening the door for female Christian athletes to join and
eventually dominate sports ministry. Today, women are the majority
of participants in sports ministry in the United States. In Playing
for God, Annie Blazer offers an exploration of the history and
religious lives of Christian athletes, showing that evangelical
engagement with popular culture can carry unintended consequences.
When sport became an avenue for embodied worship, it forced a
reckoning with evangelical teachings about the body. Female
Christian athletes increasingly turned to their own bodies to
understand their religious identity, and in so doing, came to
question evangelical mainstays on gender and sexuality. What was
once a male-dominated masculinist project of sports engagement
became a female-dominated movement that challenged evangelical
ideas on femininity, marriage hierarchy, and the sinfulness of
homosexuality. Though evangelicalism has not changed sporting
culture, for those involved in sports ministry, sport has changed
evangelicalism.
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