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Religion and Sport in North America: Critical Essays for the Twenty-First Century book cover

1st Edition

Religion and Sport in North America Critical Essays for the Twenty-First Century

Edited By Jeffrey Scholes, Randall Balmer Copyright 2023
296 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge
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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. Yet religion and sport have been tightly intertwined for millennia and continue to inform, shape, and critique one another. Moreover, sport, rather than being a solely secular activity, is one of the most important sites for... Read more

Introduction

Randall Balmer and Jeffrey Scholes

Part 1 Evangelicalism and Sport

1 "There Is Talk of Black Power": Christian Athletes and the Revolt of the Black Athlete

Paul Emory Putz

2 "The Greatest Christian Movie of All Time": 300 and Spartan Masculinity as Cultural Repertoire in Christian Mixed Martial Arts and Beyond

Zachary T. Smith

3 Forgiving Freeze: Jerry Falwell Jr., Donald Trump, and the Making of Liberty University Football

Daniel A. Grano

Part 2 Sport as a Religio-cultural Vehicle

4 Structuring Sports, Structuring Community: The Islamic Society of Chester County Debates a Basketball Court

Megan Eaton Robb and Max Dugan

5 Desiring "Deep Community": Formations of Soccer and Evangelical Christianity in the British Columbia Christian Soccer League

Nicholas William Howe Bukowski

6 Sport, Religion, and Absence: The Subfield of Religion and Sport as an Explanatory Tool for the Moment

Terry Shoemaker

Part 3 Religion, Sport, and the Market

7 Foucault for Heisman: College Football and the Liturgies of Power

Jason M. Smith

8 "Be More Human": CrossFit, Reebok, and Sporting Consumerism

Cody Musselman

9 Fandom Transfigured: Fantasy Football as Neoliberal Religion

Jeremy Sabella

Part 4 Religion and Sport through a Racial Frame

10 Ted Corbitt: The Once-forgotten and Now-remembered Pioneer of American Distance Running

Arthur Remillard

11 Savage Symbols: Native American Mascots in the USA

Annie Blazer

12 Race, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, and Religious Realism

Lori Latrice Martin

13 ¿Dios Bendiga Whose América? Resisting the Ritual Theologizing of Nation

Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández

Postscript: White Hauntings, Black Hoops: The Ghosts of Kyrie Irving

Onaje X. O. Woodbine

Biography

Jeffrey Scholes is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Religious Diversity and Public Life at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA.

Randall Balmer is John Phillips Chair in Religion at Dartmouth College, USA.

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