An Unholy Alliance: The Sacred and Modern SportsMercer University Press, 2004 - 410 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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... hands - down choice would be the tent , the tent of the Chautauquas , the big tent of the circus , and the ones that covered the sawdust trails of the evangelical band . So we invite you to come into our little tent as we try to make ...
... hands - down choice would be the tent , the tent of the Chautauquas , the big tent of the circus , and the ones that covered the sawdust trails of the evangelical band . So we invite you to come into our little tent as we try to make ...
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... hands the holy offers a touchstone for judgment on the arrogance of the world as reflected in the comment by Flannery O'Conner in Mystery and Manners that humility is not a visible trait in any national character . Sports , our most ...
... hands the holy offers a touchstone for judgment on the arrogance of the world as reflected in the comment by Flannery O'Conner in Mystery and Manners that humility is not a visible trait in any national character . Sports , our most ...
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... hand it would seem that the Super Bowl , the World Series , the Final Four , and the PGA Tournament would ... hands of poets , a covenant is kept Sports and Religion 5.
... hand it would seem that the Super Bowl , the World Series , the Final Four , and the PGA Tournament would ... hands of poets , a covenant is kept Sports and Religion 5.
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The Sacred and Modern Sports Robert J. Higgs, Michael Braswell. In the hands of poets , a covenant is kept with consciousness and with one of the injunctions on the Temple at Delphi , " Know Thyself . " If we read this famous axiom ...
The Sacred and Modern Sports Robert J. Higgs, Michael Braswell. In the hands of poets , a covenant is kept with consciousness and with one of the injunctions on the Temple at Delphi , " Know Thyself . " If we read this famous axiom ...
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... hand there seems to be little influence of Jesus or other founders of traditional faiths upon the tenets of the Religion of Sport , which pleads its case on parallels between modern games and sacred rites of preliterate cultures . Yet ...
... hand there seems to be little influence of Jesus or other founders of traditional faiths upon the tenets of the Religion of Sport , which pleads its case on parallels between modern games and sacred rites of preliterate cultures . Yet ...
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