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1 online resource (309 pages) |
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Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society |
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Routledge research in sport, culture and society.
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| Contents |
Cover; Sports and Christianity; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I Historical Perspectives on Sport and Christianity; 1 Sports and Christianity: Mapping the Field; 2 Was St. Paul a Sports Enthusiast?Realism and Rhetoric in Pauline Athletic Metaphors; 3 Sport and Religion in England, c. 1790-1914; 4 Harvesting Souls in the Stadium:The Rise of Sports Evangelism; 5 Stereotypes and Archetypes in Religion and American Sport; PART II Contemporary Perspectives on Sport and Christianity |
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6 Special Olympians as a 'Prophetic Sign'to the Modern Sporting Babel7 The Technoscience Enhancement Debate in Sports:What's Religion Got to Do with It?; 8 The Quest for Perfection in the Sport of Baseball:The Magnanimous Individual or the Magnanimous Team?; 9 The Vatican's Game Plan for MaximizingSport's Educational Potential; 10 Hard-Won Sporting Achievements andSpiritual Humility: Are They Compatible?; Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
This interdisciplinary text examines the sports-Christianity interface from Protestant and Catholic perspectives. In addition to a "systematic review of literature," field-pioneering contributors such as Michael Novak, Shirl Hoffman, Joseph Price and Robert Higgs address a wide range of topics from the sporting world, including biblical athletic metaphors, disability, evangelism, professionalism and celebrity, humility and pride, genetic enhancement technologies, stereotypes, sport as art and British and American historical analyses of sport and Christianity. Insightful chapters from Scott Kre |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sports -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Sports and religion -- History
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Religion and culture -- History
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Religion and culture
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Sports -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Idrott -- religiösa aspekter -- kristendom.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Parker, Andrew
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| ISBN |
9781136192906 |
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1136192905 |
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