An Unholy Alliance: The Sacred and Modern SportsMercer University Press, 2004 - 410 頁 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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... rites . The church would be the same but different . It would understand what Gandhi meant when he said , " God has no religion , " and laugh with Mark Twain when he said the same thing in a different way : " What God lacks is ...
... rites . The church would be the same but different . It would understand what Gandhi meant when he said , " God has no religion , " and laugh with Mark Twain when he said the same thing in a different way : " What God lacks is ...
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... rites of passages for boys and , increasingly , for girls as well . In earlier times this purpose was served and symbolized by the hunt as in Faulkner's The Bear . The need for some kind of initiation rites dies hard , as sensational ...
... rites of passages for boys and , increasingly , for girls as well . In earlier times this purpose was served and symbolized by the hunt as in Faulkner's The Bear . The need for some kind of initiation rites dies hard , as sensational ...
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... rites to propitiate the gods or fill us with awe necessary for worship . It should be noted that all of the sacred sites mentioned above exist “ inside ” the hunting caves , the Temple of Zeus , and the Sistine Chapel , the last two ...
... rites to propitiate the gods or fill us with awe necessary for worship . It should be noted that all of the sacred sites mentioned above exist “ inside ” the hunting caves , the Temple of Zeus , and the Sistine Chapel , the last two ...
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Whats in a Name? | 16 |
The Religion of Sports and the Media | 78 |
The Cross in the Coliseum | 103 |
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