Religion and sport : the meeting of sacred and profane
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Religion and sport : the meeting of sacred and profane
（Contributions to the study of popular culture, no. 36）
Greenwood Press, 1993
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Includes bibliography (p. [229]-233) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Prebish offers a thoughtful look at sport as a religious experience and argues that sport has become an American religion. The first section of the work contains three chapters that provide a definitional, theoretical, and methodological frame for examining sport as religion. The five chapters that follow, each written by an authority in the field, treat different aspects of the religious dimension of sport. These chapters represent the most important writings on sport as a religious experience, and each author offers a full and thoughtful discussion rather than a cursory overview. A final chapter by Prebish closes the work.
The first chapter of the book challenges traditional assumptions about religion and encourages the reader to reconsider what religion is. The second chapter examines the difficulty of defining sport, and the third probes the close relationship between sport and religion. The anthology that follows contains chapters that examine religion and sport from sociological, historical, theological, philosophical, and psychological perspectives. A concluding bibliography lists material for further reading.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Religion: Approaches and Assumptions by Charles S. Prebish
The Sports Arena: Some Basic Definitions by Charles S. Prebish
Religion and Sport: Convergence or Identity? by Charles S. Prebish
Anthology
Sport and Religion by D. Stanley Eitzen and George H. Sage
An Existential Phenomenological Analysis of Sport as a Religious Experience by William J. Morgan
The Joy of Sports by Michael Novak
Sport and the Religious by Howard Slusher
The Emergence of Born Again-Sport by Brian W. W. Aitken
Conclusion
Training into Transcendence by Charles S. Prebish
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