Gods, games, and globalization : new perspectives on religion and sports / Rebecca Alpert and Arthur Remillard, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alpert, Rebecca T. (Rebecca Trachtenberg), 1950- editor.

Remillard, Arthur, editor.

Series:

Sports and religion

Sports & religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Religious aspects.

Sports.

Physical Description:

xii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Gods, games, & globalization

Place of Publication:

Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, [2019]

Summary:

The focus of this volume is on the varieties of religious experiences in sports on the global stage. The first generation of sports and religion scholars debated the ways sports intersected with or even replaced traditional religions and investigated self-identified religious adherents and institutions that have used sports in traditional religious contexts. Our task here is to expand, revise, and complicate this conversation. The essays in this volume look both within and beyond conventional frames to shine a light on the many facets of this endlessly compelling topic. The authors featured here press against the U.S. settings that have occupied a central location in the story of religion and sports. These essays extend out to the different corners of the world, to developed and developing nations, from urban to rural landscapes. They examine sports with devoted followings that are underrepresented in conversations on religion and sports: mixed martial arts, fly fishing, pole dancing, youth hockey, and track and field. And they reveal sports' connectedness to broader global forces, such as capitalism, education, philanthropy, and international conflict, providing new theoretical perspectives in the study of religion and sport. Sports make ordinary people act in extraordinarily strange ways. The aim of this book is to encourage readers to develop a deeper appreciation for this curious human activity. Whether it's a soccer game in Africa, or a baseball game in New York City, we all have a great deal to learn about the games people play and love. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Rebecca Alpert, Arthur Remillard

Part I: A global perspective. A very serious game : soccer as a window into the theology of capitalism / Kevin Hargaden

"Sport with a mission" : sport as a means of renewed Catholic apostolate among indigenous people in former Belgian Congo (1919-1959) / Dries Vanysacker

The paradox of Christian masculinity : sports, war, and internationalism at the 1919 Inter-Allied Games / Seth Dowland

The Clericus Cup / Janelle Peters

Part II: Beyond the Holy Trinity. Pole dance as a counter-cultural, feminist, embodied practice for the reclamation of eros / Jennifer Baldwin

Casting for meaning : the mythical, mystical, and metaphysical significance of fly fishing / Joseph L. Price

Muscular affect : the power team and the heavy lifiting of evangelical salvation / Annie Blazer

Redeeming sports violence : mixed martial arts ministries as a remedy for gender anxieties in American evangelicalism / Scott Strednak Singer

Sybil "Syd" Koff : track and field star in American Jewish life / Linda J. Borish

Part III: Emerging theoretical insights. "I pray that I can be contagious" : exploring the faith of Christian elite athletes using a socio-theological approach / Tom Gibbons, Stuart Braye

The scandalizing of religion, fanaticism, and modern sport / Roberto Sirvent, Duncan Reyburn

Turning those others' cheeks : racial martyrdom and the re-intergration of major league baseball / Carmen Nanko-Fernández

Sport and the "search for the sacred" / Tracy J. Trothen

Overtime. Christianity and ice hockey in Canada : the role of violence / Nick DeLuca.

ISBN:

9780881467222

0881467227

OCLC:

1109972350