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This volume is edited by leading figures in the field. The book
will cover all major topics studied on a religion and sport course
so will be the go-to volume for students approaching the topic for
the first time. Topics covered are relevant and engaging for
students.
This volume is edited by leading figures in the field. The book
will cover all major topics studied on a religion and sport course
so will be the go-to volume for students approaching the topic for
the first time. Topics covered are relevant and engaging for
students.
This book provides a rigorously researched introduction to the
relationship between Christianity, race, and sport in the United
States. Christianity, Race, and Sport examines how Protestant
Christianity and race have interacted, often to the detriment of
Black bodies, throughout the sporting world over the last century.
Important sporting figures and case studies discussed include: the
sanctification of baseball player Jackie Robinson; the
domestication of Muhammad Ali and George Foreman; religious
expressions of athletes in the NFL; treatment of African American
tennis player Serena Williams; Colin Kaepernick and his prophetic
voice. This accessible and conversational book is essential reading
for undergraduate students approaching religion and race or
religion and sport for the first time, as well as those working
within the sociology of sport, sport studies, history of sport, or
philosophy of sport.
This book provides a rigorously researched introduction to the
relationship between Christianity, race, and sport in the United
States. Christianity, Race, and Sport examines how Protestant
Christianity and race have interacted, often to the detriment of
Black bodies, throughout the sporting world over the last century.
Important sporting figures and case studies discussed include: the
sanctification of baseball player Jackie Robinson; the
domestication of Muhammad Ali and George Foreman; religious
expressions of athletes in the NFL; treatment of African American
tennis player Serena Williams; Colin Kaepernick and his prophetic
voice. This accessible and conversational book is essential reading
for undergraduate students approaching religion and race or
religion and sport for the first time, as well as those working
within the sociology of sport, sport studies, history of sport, or
philosophy of sport.
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.
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.
Since Martin Luther, vocations or callings have had a close
relationship with daily work. It is a give-and-take relationship in
which the meaning of a vocation typically negotiates with the kinds
of work available (and vice-versa) at any given time. While
"vocation language" still has currency in Western culture, today's
predominant meaning of vocation has little to do with the actual
work performed on a job. Jeffrey Scholes contends that recent
theological treatments of the Protestant concept of vocation, both
academic and popular, often unwittingly collude with consumer
culture to circulate a concept of vocation that is detached from
the material conditions of work. The result is a consumer-friendly
vocation that is rendered impotent to inform and, if necessary,
challenge the political norms of the workplace. For example, he
classifies Rick Warren's concept of "purpose" in his best-selling
book, The Purpose-Driven Life, as a functional equivalent of
vocation that acts in this way. Other popular uses of vocation
along with insights culled from traditional theology and consumer
culture studies help Scholes reveal the current state of vocations
in the West. Using recent scholarship in the field of political
theology, he argues that resisting commodification is a possibility
and a prerequisite for a "political vocation," if it is at all able
to engage the norms that regulate and undermine the pursuit of
justice in many modern workplaces.
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