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Religion and Sports in American Culture (Hardcover, New)
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Religion and Sports in American Culture (Hardcover, New)
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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.
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