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Gods, games, and globalization : new perspectives on religion and sports

Title
Gods, games, and globalization : new perspectives on religion and sports / Rebecca Alpert and Arthur Remillard, editors.
Publication
  • Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, [2019]
  • ©2019

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Additional Authors
  • Alpert, Rebecca T. (Rebecca Trachtenberg), 1950-
  • Remillard, Arthur
Description
xii, 310 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Sports & religion
Uniform Title
Sports and religion.
Alternative Title
Gods, games, & globalization
Subject
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Rebecca Alpert, Arthur Remillard -- Part I: A global perspective. A very serious game : soccer as a window into the theology of capitalism / Kevin Hargaden -- "Sport with a mission" : sport as a means of renewed Catholic apostolate among indigenous people in former Belgian Congo (1919-1959) / Dries Vanysacker -- The paradox of Christian masculinity : sports, war, and internationalism at the 1919 Inter-Allied Games / Seth Dowland -- The Clericus Cup / Janelle Peters -- Part II: Beyond the Holy Trinity. Pole dance as a counter-cultural, feminist, embodied practice for the reclamation of eros / Jennifer Baldwin -- Casting for meaning : the mythical, mystical, and metaphysical significance of fly fishing / Joseph L. Price -- Muscular affect : the power team and the heavy lifiting of evangelical salvation / Annie Blazer -- Redeeming sports violence : mixed martial arts ministries as a remedy for gender anxieties in American evangelicalism / Scott Strednak Singer -- Sybil "Syd" Koff : track and field star in American Jewish life / Linda J. Borish -- Part III: Emerging theoretical insights. "I pray that I can be contagious" : exploring the faith of Christian elite athletes using a socio-theological approach / Tom Gibbons, Stuart Braye -- The scandalizing of religion, fanaticism, and modern sport / Roberto Sirvent, Duncan Reyburn -- Turning those others' cheeks : racial martyrdom and the re-intergration of major league baseball / Carmen Nanko-Fernández -- Sport and the "search for the sacred" / Tracy J. Trothen -- Overtime. Christianity and ice hockey in Canada : the role of violence / Nick DeLuca.
Call Number
JFE 20-5122
ISBN
  • 9780881467222
  • 0881467227
LCCN
2019287171
OCLC
1109972350
Title
Gods, games, and globalization : new perspectives on religion and sports / Rebecca Alpert and Arthur Remillard, editors.
Publisher
Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, [2019]
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Sports & religion
Sports and religion.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Alpert, Rebecca T. (Rebecca Trachtenberg), 1950- editor.
Remillard, Arthur, editor.
Research Call Number
JFE 20-5122
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