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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... ideal degenerated into " mere sport . 993 Jaeger is also the author of a slim but important book titled Paideia and Christianity , which shows how initially the philosophic heritage of Greece related to the ideals of the upstart ...
... ideal degenerated into " mere sport . 993 Jaeger is also the author of a slim but important book titled Paideia and Christianity , which shows how initially the philosophic heritage of Greece related to the ideals of the upstart ...
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... ideal of mens sana in corpore sano ( sound mind in a sound body ) is all a nation needs for moral growth . The other is that religion with its professed attention to the soul can provide the necessary influence to shape and attune mind ...
... ideal of mens sana in corpore sano ( sound mind in a sound body ) is all a nation needs for moral growth . The other is that religion with its professed attention to the soul can provide the necessary influence to shape and attune mind ...
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... ideal , the quality of aidos , which according to E. Norman Gardiner wins the athlete the favor of the gods and averts their jealousy : That jealousy is excited by all excess , by pride , by insolence . Aidos is the exact opposite of ...
... ideal , the quality of aidos , which according to E. Norman Gardiner wins the athlete the favor of the gods and averts their jealousy : That jealousy is excited by all excess , by pride , by insolence . Aidos is the exact opposite of ...
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... ideal : “ In Homer the real mark of the nobleman is his sense of duty . He is judged and proud to be judged by a severe standard . And the nobleman educates others by presenting to them an eternal ideal to which they have a duty to ...
... ideal : “ In Homer the real mark of the nobleman is his sense of duty . He is judged and proud to be judged by a severe standard . And the nobleman educates others by presenting to them an eternal ideal to which they have a duty to ...
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... ideal ) of God has been clothed in the qualities of strength and wisdom , Sapientia et Fortitudo , also the virtues attributed to epic heroes . A Literary and Cultural History of the Divine and Heroic Ideal The ideal of wisdom and ...
... ideal ) of God has been clothed in the qualities of strength and wisdom , Sapientia et Fortitudo , also the virtues attributed to epic heroes . A Literary and Cultural History of the Divine and Heroic Ideal The ideal of wisdom and ...
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