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This book discusses violence and its connection with religion,
sport and popular culture. It highlights the religious dimensions
of violence and the role of violence in the religion and culture of
the American South. Extending into popular culture, it then makes
the case that sport-particularly American football-is a cultural
phenomenon in the South with close ties with religion and violence,
and that American football has come to play a central role in the
civil religion of the South, fueled in part by its violent nature.
The book concludes by drawing important lessons from this case
study-lessons that help us to see both religion and sport in a new
light.
Eric Bain-Selbo argues that the study of religion—from
philosophers to psychologists, and historians of religion to
sociologists—has separated out the “ends” or goals of
religion and thus created the conditions by which institutional
religion is increasingly irrelevant in contemporary Western
culture. There is ample evidence that institutional religion is in
trouble, and little evidence that it will strengthen in the future,
giving some reason to believe that we are in the process of seeing
the end of religion. At the same time, various cultural practices
have met in the past and continue to meet today certain fundamental
human needs—needs that we might identify as religious that now
are being fulfilled through what Bain-Selbo calls the “religion
of culture.” The End(s) of Religion traces the way that the very
study of religion has led to institutional religion being viewed as
just one human institution that can address our particular
“religious” needs rather than the sole institution to do so. In
turn, ultimately we can begin to see how other institutions or
forms of culture can function to serve these same needs or
“ends.”
Eric Bain-Selbo argues that the study of religion—from
philosophers to psychologists, and historians of religion to
sociologists—has separated out the “ends” or goals of
religion and thus created the conditions by which institutional
religion is increasingly irrelevant in contemporary Western
culture. There is ample evidence that institutional religion is in
trouble, and little evidence that it will strengthen in the future,
giving some reason to believe that we are in the process of seeing
the end of religion. At the same time, various cultural practices
have met in the past and continue to meet today certain fundamental
human needs—needs that we might identify as religious that now
are being fulfilled through what Bain-Selbo calls the “religion
of culture.” The End(s) of Religion traces the way that the very
study of religion has led to institutional religion being viewed as
just one human institution that can address our particular
“religious” needs rather than the sole institution to do so. In
turn, ultimately we can begin to see how other institutions or
forms of culture can function to serve these same needs or
“ends.”
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.
Readers are introduced to a range of theoretical and methodological
approaches used to understand religion - including sociology,
philosophy, psychology, and anthropology - and how they can be used
to understand sport as a religious phenomenon. Topics include the
formation of powerful communities among fans and the religious
experience of the fan, myth, symbols and rituals and the sacrality
of sport, and sport and secularization. Case studies are taken from
around the world and include the Olympics (ancient and modern),
football in the UK, the All Blacks and New Zealand national
identity, college football in the American South, and gymnastics.
Ideal for classroom use, Understanding Sport as a Religious
Phenomenon illuminates the nature of religion through sports
phenomena and is a much-needed contribution to the field of
religion and popular culture.
Readers are introduced to a range of theoretical and methodological
approaches used to understand religion - including sociology,
philosophy, psychology, and anthropology - and how they can be used
to understand sport as a religious phenomenon. Topics include the
formation of powerful communities among fans and the religious
experience of the fan, myth, symbols and rituals and the sacrality
of sport, and sport and secularization. Case studies are taken from
around the world and include the Olympics (ancient and modern),
football in the UK, the All Blacks and New Zealand national
identity, college football in the American South, and gymnastics.
Ideal for classroom use, Understanding Sport as a Religious
Phenomenon illuminates the nature of religion through sports
phenomena and is a much-needed contribution to the field of
religion and popular culture.
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.
Judge and Be Judged offers insights into moral life and moral
judgment that aim to help in understanding our society's tendency
towards either fundamentalism or relativism. Framing his argument
with an exegesis of Jesus' teaching "Judge not, that you be not
judged," Eric Bain-Selbo provides some helpful conceptual tools for
thinking about that predicament, and finding a way past it. By
examining the social function of shame, the possibility of
cross-cultural understanding, and obstacles to moral judgment in
the college classroom, this book charts a path that helps us to
avoid both fundamentalism and relativism.
This Book Is intended for general readers interested in theoretical
and practical problems revolving around multiculturalism and
education. Most, if not all, philosophical debates come down to the
fundamental conflict between cocneptions of goods and rights.
Current debates about multiculturalism and pluralism, especially in
the area of education, often pit the goods of communities against
rights-claims of other groups or individuals, which leads to an
impasse. The author's alternative starting point for ethics allows
us to view these conflicts in a new light and thus bring new
changes for insightful resolutions. Chapter 1 poses the problem.
Chapter 2 begins the philosophical heart of the book with an
appropriation of Aristotle's moral theory as a framework to
consider ethics in a multicultural context. This re-reading of
Aristotle is accomplished in large part with the aid of the
philosophical hermeneutics of Gadamer. His general theory of
understanding and his reading of Aristotie are covered in Chapter
3. Chapter 4 highlights the dialogical virtues of humility, charity
and courage and Chapter 5 provides a perspective on education that
is based on the ethical theory previously developed. Chapter 6
applies the author's ethical and educational positions to
contemporary education, specifically those having to do with
diversity and multiculturalism.
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