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The origins of nearly all sports can be found in religious
ceremonies. The Olympic Games and Sumo wrestling are clear examples
of how civilizations, both ancient and modern, connect athletic
performance and achievement to a higher spiritual plane - to an
indescribable yet clearly recognized "something more."
"The Gift of Sports" will give readers an understanding of and
appreciation for the religious dimensions of sports. The selections
in the text demonstrate that the appeal and popularity of sports is
based on viewing them, not just as business or entertainment, but
as ceremony.
Topics covered in the book include:
- Religion as a gift exchange between different beings
- The sacred nature of sporting events and venues
- Sports as a vital force in youth and community development
- Fan devotion
- Mascots
- Sports and Money
- "The Creator s Game" of Lacrosse
- Racism and Sexism in sports
"The Gift of Sports" offers a unique perspective on two familiar
topics by showing that in many respects, they are one and the same.
Philip P. Arnold is Associate Professor of Religion at Syracuse
University in New York, which is located in Onondaga Nation
Territory--the heartland of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois). He has
written on Aztec and Haudenosaunee traditions and advocates for
Indigenous peoples and their traditions through the Indigenous
Values Initiative. As a sports fan he enjoys watching games of all
kinds, particularly those involving family and friends.
In this book, Philip Arnold utilizes a collaborative method,
derived from the "Two-Row Wampum" (1613) and his 40 year
relationship with the Haudenosaunee, in exploring the urgent need
to understand Indigenous values, support Indigenous Peoples, and to
offer a way toward humanity’s survival in the face of ecological
and environmental catastrophe. Indigenous values connect human
beings with the living natural world through ceremonial exchange
practices with non-human beings who co-inhabit the homelands.
Arnold outlines Indigenous traditions of habitation and ceremonial
gift economies and contrasts those with settler-colonial values of
commodification where the land and all aspects of material life
belongs to human beings and are reduced to monetary use-value.
Through an examination of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery, a
series of fifteenth-century documents that used religious decrees
to justify the subjugation and annihilation of Indigenous Peoples,
Arnold shows how issues such as environmental devastation, social
justice concerns, land theft, and forced conversion practices have
their origins in settler-colonial relationships with the
sacred—that persists today. Designed to initiate a conversation
in the classroom, in the academy, and in various communities about
what is essential to the category of Indigeneity, this book offers
a way of understanding value systems of Indigenous peoples. By
pairing the concepts of Indigeneity and religion around competing
values systems, Arnold transforms our understanding of both
categories.
In this book, Philip Arnold utilizes a collaborative method,
derived from the "Two-Row Wampum" (1613) and his 40 year
relationship with the Haudenosaunee, in exploring the urgent need
to understand Indigenous values, support Indigenous Peoples, and to
offer a way toward humanity’s survival in the face of ecological
and environmental catastrophe. Indigenous values connect human
beings with the living natural world through ceremonial exchange
practices with non-human beings who co-inhabit the homelands.
Arnold outlines Indigenous traditions of habitation and ceremonial
gift economies and contrasts those with settler-colonial values of
commodification where the land and all aspects of material life
belongs to human beings and are reduced to monetary use-value.
Through an examination of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery, a
series of fifteenth-century documents that used religious decrees
to justify the subjugation and annihilation of Indigenous Peoples,
Arnold shows how issues such as environmental devastation, social
justice concerns, land theft, and forced conversion practices have
their origins in settler-colonial relationships with the
sacred—that persists today. Designed to initiate a conversation
in the classroom, in the academy, and in various communities about
what is essential to the category of Indigeneity, this book offers
a way of understanding value systems of Indigenous peoples. By
pairing the concepts of Indigeneity and religion around competing
values systems, Arnold transforms our understanding of both
categories.
Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Touristik /
Tourismus, Note: 1,3, Hochschule Pforzheim (Fakultat fur Wirtschaft
& Recht), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Inhaltsangabe:
Einleitung: In der heutigen Welt besitzt die Lust zu Reisen ein
gigantisches, internationales Gewicht und ruckt die
Tourismuswirtschaft auf der Liste der globalen Wirtschaftsmotoren
auf einen der fuhrenden Platze. Der Tourismus ist in der Lage,
gerade Landern mit relativ niedrigen Industrialisierungsgrad ein
hervorragendes Entwicklungspotential fur den heimischen
Beschaftigungsmarkt zu liefern und unterstutzt somit eine
nachhaltige Entwicklung schwacherer Gebiete. Naturlich lassen sich
heute auch die negativen Auswirkungen eines (zu) schnell wachsenden
Tourismus erkennen, der Volkswirtschaften in einen wahren
Ausverkauf ihrer Landschaften zwingt und die Bevolkerung in eine
starke Abhangigkeit sturzen kann. Reisen ist zu einem
Grundbedurfnis der Menschen geworden. Der stetig wachsende
Wirtschaftszweig Tourismus ist mit uber 250 Millionen Beschaftigten
der weltweit grosste Arbeitgeber und erbrachte allein in Europa im
Jahr 2003 einen Umsatz knapp 400 Milliarden Euro. Gerade bei diesen
okonomischen Dimensionen verwundert es, dass man in vielen
Unternehmen der Tourismuswirtschaft ein systematisches Marketing,
wie es andere Branchen schon seit Jahren praktizieren, vergeblich
sucht. Eine Antwort findet sich im Ruckblick auf vergangene
Jahrzehnte. Die touristischen Verkaufermarkte ermoglichten nahezu
jedem touristischen Anbieter ohne differenziertes Marketing seit
den funfziger Jahren bis ins letzte Jahrzehnt ein stetes Wachstum.
Die Neunziger jedoch zeigten erste Sattigungstendenzen und
kundigten den Wandel vom Verkaufer- zum Kaufermarkt an, der
naturlich auch gestiegene Anforderungen an die touristischen
Leistungsanbieter stellte. Die vorliegende Arbeit mochte die
Wirkungsfelder touristischer Marketingforschung, sowie den
Entstehungsprozess einer Marketingkonzeption, am Beispiel der
spanischen Re
Religion and Global Culture draws together the work of a group of
historians of religion who are concerned with situating the
contemporary study of religion within the cultural complexity of
the modern world. The writing of each of the volume's contributors
relates to the work of leading historian of religion Charles H.
Long, who has identified religious meanings in the contacts and
exchanges of the colonial and postcolonial periods. Together with
Long, these scholars explore religious practices in a variety of
globalized contexts; chapters consider such varied subjects as the
rituals of African immigrant communities in the United States, the
making of Mohawk sweet grass and black ash baskets, the religious
experience of prisoners in the Nazi holding camp of Westerbork, and
the regional repercussions of contemporary multi-national business.
By locating religion in the conflicted and cooperative
relationships of the colonial and postcolonial periods, Religion
and Global Culture calls on scholars of religion to reconfigure
their interpretive stances from the perspective of the material
structures of the modern, globalized world.
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