Religion and Sport in North America: Critical Essays for the Twenty-First Century Scholes Jeffrey
Religion and Sport in North America: Critical Essays for the Twenty-First Century Scholes Jeffrey From athletes praising God to pastors using sport metaphors in the pulpit, the association between…
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Religion and Sport in North America: Critical Essays for the Twenty-First Century Scholes Jeffrey
From athletes praising God to pastors using sport metaphors in the pulpit, the association between sport and religion in North America is often considered incidental. Moreover, sport, rather than being a solely secular activity, is one of the most important sites for debates over gender, race, capitalism, the media, and civil religion.Traditionally, scholarly writings on religion and sport have focused on the question of whether sport is a religion, using historical, philosophical, theological, and sociological insights to argue this matter. Yet religion and sport have been tightly intertwined for millennia and continue to inform, shape, and critique one another.
While these efforts sought to answer an important question, contemporary issues related to sports were neglected, such as globalization, commercialization, feminism, masculinity, critical race theory, and the ethics