Sport and religion in the twenty-first century / edited by Brad Schultz and Mary Lou Sheffer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schultz, Brad, 1961-

Sheffer, Mary Lou.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Religious aspects.

Sports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-9787-3170-1

1-4985-1442-1

OCLC:

932262083