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Sport and Religion in the Twenty-First Century.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (274 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498514422
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sport and Religion in the Twenty-First CenturyDDC classification:
  • 796.01
LOC classification:
  • GV706.42.S6555 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Who's Got Game?: America's New Religion -- 2 From Sunday Sermon to Monday Night Football -- 3 Elegy for the McPheean Moment -- 4 Biblical Tales in the Sports News -- 5 An Olympic Religion -- 6 "Be Not Conformed" -- 7 A Useable Soccer Martyr -- 8 Celebrating in a Cemetery -- 9 Southern Reconstructing -- 10 Exercising the Spiritual Muscle -- 11 Are Sports Programs at Small Church-Affiliated Colleges and Universities Really Different? -- 12 "Our Hope Is Built on Nothing Less" -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Who's Got Game?: America's New Religion -- 2 From Sunday Sermon to Monday Night Football -- 3 Elegy for the McPheean Moment -- 4 Biblical Tales in the Sports News -- 5 An Olympic Religion -- 6 "Be Not Conformed" -- 7 A Useable Soccer Martyr -- 8 Celebrating in a Cemetery -- 9 Southern Reconstructing -- 10 Exercising the Spiritual Muscle -- 11 Are Sports Programs at Small Church-Affiliated Colleges and Universities Really Different? -- 12 "Our Hope Is Built on Nothing Less" -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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