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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819537003321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-4985-1442-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Disciplina

796.01

Soggetti

Sports - Religious aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.