An Unholy Alliance: The Sacred and Modern SportsMercer University Press, 2004 - 410 strani An Unholy Alliance offers a dissenting view to the claim by a growing number of scholars that Sports are a new religion. The last few years have seen a spate of books that might be classified by a genre called "Sports Apologetics," that is, arguments defending or celebrating in one way or another the familiar and ongoing alliance in America between sports and religion. Recently, claims have been made by scholars that sports are an authentic religion in and of themselves. They make this startling assertion not by showing connections with the teachings of Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, or Moses, but by parallels between the rites of modern games and those of preliterate man that were "religious" in nature because they were designed to propitiate powers and to ward off evil for the tribes employing them. In this evocative book, Higgs and Braswell suggest that while sports may often be good things, they are not inherently divine. They do not focus on wide-spread abuse in sports as evidence for their counterargument. Rather, they question the use of mythological parallels from prehistory as justification for viewing sports as a religion. |
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Wisdom and Strength Two Faces of the Holy | 52 |
The Religion of Sports and the Media Marshall McLuhan among the Apologists | 74 |
The Cross in the Coliseum Sacred Ground and Battle Ground | 99 |
Religion Sports and War The Conflicted History of the Knight and the Shepherd | 120 |
The Religion of Sports and That Oldtime Religion In the Steps of Mircea Eliade | 149 |
Ethics Values and Excellence Testing the Spirits | 235 |
The Statue of Zeus and Creation of Adam Athletic Art as Sacred and Holy | 269 |
Humor and the Eternal Triangle Mind Sports and Religion | 297 |
The High Seriousness of the Religion of Sports A Return to Polytheism? | 333 |
Apotheosis Versus Atonement | 363 |
Epilogue | 383 |
Religious Dichotomies | 385 |
Textual Notes on Comparative Theology | 388 |
Varieties of Mystical Experiences Old and New | 175 |
The Holy and the Flow Ultimacy Versus Intimacy | 208 |
Index | 391 |
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An Unholy Alliance: The Sacred and Modern Sports Robert J. Higgs,Michael Braswell Omejen predogled - 2004 |
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