The Prophetic Dimension of Sport: SpringerBriefs in Religious Studies
Editat de Terry Shoemakeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 noi 2018
Sport is indisputably an important cultural phenomenon in the United States. Each year millions attend sporting events, track the statistics and lives of sports stars, collect memorabilia, engage in fantasy sports, and play various sporting games. But increasingly, sport is also a space for public articulations regarding social and political issues within the United States. What are we to make of these particular articulations? What do they tell us about the nature of sport in the United States? How are these social and political critiques formed? Why do sporting voices seem to carry more weight at this moment in history?
Ideally suited for use in undergraduate and graduate courses, this book offers a new way of thinking about the connection between sport and religion in a secularizing society. By analyzing various sports and particular historical moments, the chapters supply a unique example of the relevance of sport as it pertains to social and political critique.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9783030022921
ISBN-10: 3030022927
Pagini: 99
Ilustrații: VII, 57 p. 1 illus.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.11 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2019
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Springer
Seriile SpringerBriefs in Religious Studies, Briefs in Religion and Sport
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
ISBN-10: 3030022927
Pagini: 99
Ilustrații: VII, 57 p. 1 illus.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.11 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2019
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Springer
Seriile SpringerBriefs in Religious Studies, Briefs in Religion and Sport
Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland
Cuprins
Chapter 1. Introduction, Terry Shoemaker, Arizona State University.- Chapter 2. The Prophetic Dimension of Sport, Eric Bain-Selbo, Indiana University Kokomo.- Chapter 3. Who is Prophet? Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey, and the Integration of Baseball, Rebecca Alpert, Temple University.- Chapter 4. Basketball, Black Lives Matter and Prophetic Imagination, Terry Shoemaker, Arizona State University.- Chapter 5. Disrupting the NFL’s Civil Religious Canopy: Super Bowl Half Time Show as Prophetic Stage, Jeffrey Scholes, University of Colorado.-Chapter 6. The Problem with Winning: How Evangelicals Have Tried (And Failed) to Change the World of Sports, Annie Blazer, William & Mary.- Chapter 7. Response: TBD.
Notă biografică
Terry Shoemaker holds a Lecturer position in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. His research focuses on sites of resistance within religious communities and social pressures inherent in religious shifts.
Caracteristici
The first-ever book to analyze the category of sport as a prophetic space in the United States Brings together leading scholars in the fields of Religion and Sport to examine a meaningful aspect of sport in the modern world Piques, using relevant case studies, the interests of undergraduate and graduate students, while also supplying theoretical frameworks for courses in religious and cultural studies