Sport and religion in the twenty-first century

Title:

Author:

Schultz, Brad, 1961-

ISBN:

9781498514415

9781498530569

Physical Description:

xi, 260 pages ; 24 cm

Abstract:

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.

Contents:

Who's Got Game? America's New Religion / Mary Lou Sheffer -- From Sunday Sermon to Monday Night Football: The Rise of the Use of Prayer in North American Sports / Alan Goldenbach -- Elegy for the McPheean Moment: False Idols and the Tyrannical Faith of Celebrity-Sports Culture / Jeffrey B. Kurtz -- Biblical Tales in the Sports News: Narrative and the Redemption of Michael Vick / Chris B. Geyerman -- An Olympic Religion: Does the IOC Still Have Faith in the Olympic Games? / Anthony J. Moretti -- "Be Not Conformed": The Relationship Between Modern Sport and Religion / Brad Schultz -- A Useable Soccer Martyr: The Egyptian Ultras and their Fight for Legitimacy / Natalia Mielczarek -- Celebrating in a Cemetery: Sport, the Sacred, and a Search for Significance in Fan Communities / Bruce J. Evensen -- Southern Reconstructing: Sport and the Future of Religion in the American South / Eric Bain-Selbo and Terry Shoemaker -- Exercising the Spiritual Muscle: Holistic Care Service Provision in Intercollegiate Athletics / Landon T. Huffman, Robin Hardin, and Steven N. Waller -- Are Sports Programs at Small Church-Affiliated Colleges and Universities Really Different? / Patrick J. Sutherland -- "Our Hope is Built on Nothing Less": Why Religion-Spirituality Matters in the Lives of Black Male College Athletes / Steven N. Waller.

Subject Term:

Sports -- Religious aspects.

Added Author:

Schultz, Brad, 1961-

Sheffer, Mary Lou.

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Choice Review

Here is one more book among a host of others on sport and religion. Comprising 12 essays, the volume commits itself to this relationship from "both macro and micro perspectives." The backgrounds of the contributors range from sports management to journalism and communication arts. Though the blurbs on the dust jacket say otherwise, the volume includes very little different or unique information on this now-popular subject. Perhaps the finest essay is the last one, Steven Waller's "'Our Hope Is Built on Nothing Less': Why Religion/Spirituality Matters in the Lives of Black Male College Athletes." The book's major contribution is bibliographical--the references run to almost 30 pages. And the book rightly encourages far more interdisciplinary scholarship on the myriad possible topics related to sport and religion. The collection could also serve as a worthy text, though the extremely high price may argue against that. Summing Up: Recommended. With reservations. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. --George H. Shriver, Georgia Southern University , Retired