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Unholy Alliance (Paperback, New)
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An Unholy Alliance offers a dissenting view to the claim by a
growing number of scholars that Sports are a new religion. The last
few years have seen a spate of books that might be classified by a
genre called "Sports Apologetics," that is, arguments defending or
celebrating in one way or another the familiar and ongoing alliance
in America between sports and religion. Recently, claims have been
made by scholars that sports are an authentic religion in and of
themselves. They make this startling assertion not by showing
connections with the teachings of Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, or
Moses, but by parallels between the rites of modern games and those
of preliterate man that were "religious" in nature because they
were designed to propitiate powers and to ward off evil for the
tribes employing them. In this evocative book, Higgs and Braswell
suggest that while sports may often be good things, they are not
inherently divine. They do not focus on wide-spread abuse in sports
as evidence for their counterargument. Rather, they question the
use of mythological parallels from prehistory as justification for
viewing sports as a religion.
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