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Gods, games, and globalization : new perspectives on religion and sports / Rebecca Alpert and Arthur Remillard, editors.

Contributor(s): Alpert, Rebecca T. (Rebecca Trachtenberg), 1950- [editor.] | Remillard, Arthur [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Sports and religion: Publisher: Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: xii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780881467222; 0881467227Other title: Gods, games, & globalizationSubject(s): Sports -- Religious aspectsLOC classification: GV706.42 | .G63 2019
Contents:
Rebecca Alpert, Arthur Remillard -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.

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.

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