Religion And The Rise Of Sport In England

Author : David Hugh Mcleod
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780192859983

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Religion and the Rise of Sport in England by David Hugh Mcleod Pdf

Tells the story of the changing relationship between sport and religion from 1800 to the present day Both religion and sport stir deep emotions, shape identities, and inspire powerful loyalties. They have sometimes been in competition for people's resources of time and money, but can also be mutually supportive. We live in a world where sport seems to be everywhere. Not only is there saturation media coverage but governments extol the benefits of sport for nation and individual, and in 2019 the Church of England appointed a Bishop for Sport. The religious world has not always looked so kindly on sport. In the early nineteenth century, Evangelical Christians led campaigns to ban sports deemed cruel, brutal or disorderly. But from the 1850s Christian and other religious leaders turned from attacking 'bad' sports to promoting 'good' ones. The pace of change accelerated in the 1960s, as commercialization of sport intensified and Sunday sport became established, while the world of religion was transformed by increasing secularization, a resurgent Evangelicalism, and the growth of a multi-faith society. This is the first book to tell this story, and while its principal focus is on Christianity, there is additional coverage of Judaism and Islam, as there is of those - from Victorian sporting gentry to present-day football fans and marathon runners - for whom sport is itself a religion.

Author : Andrew Parker,Nick J. Watson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781443859257

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Sport and the Christian Religion by Andrew Parker,Nick J. Watson Pdf

This book provides a systematic and interdisciplinary analysis of the published literature and practical initiatives on the sports-Christianity interface from both Protestant and Catholic perspectives. Within the context of this relatively new and rapidly expanding area of inquiry, this text offers an original contribution to the current literature for both undergraduate and postgraduate students and serves as a point of reference for academics from a wide range of related fields including theology and religious studies, psychology, history, sociology, philosophy, psychology, health-religion studies, and sports studies. The book will also be of interest to sports chaplains, those involved in sports ministry organizations, physical educators and sports coaches who wish to adopt a more critical and ‘holistic’ approach to their work. As modern-day sports are often entwined with commercial and political agendas, the book also provides an important response to the ‘win-at-all-costs’ and business orientated philosophy, which characterises much of contemporary sport practice, yet which cannot always be fully understood through secular inquiry.

Author : Jim Parry,Mark Nesti,Nick Watson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781136893797

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Theology, Ethics and Transcendence in Sports by Jim Parry,Mark Nesti,Nick Watson Pdf

This book provides an inter-disciplinary examination of the relationship between sport, spirituality and religion. It covers a wide-range of topics, such as prayer and sport, religious and spiritual perspectives on athletic identity and ‘flow’ in sport, theological analysis of genetic performance enhancement technologies, sectarianism in Scottish football, a spiritual understanding of sport psychology consultancy in English premiership soccer and how Zen may be useful in sports performance and participation. As modern sport is often intertwined with commercial and political agendas, this book also provides an important corrective to the “win at all costs” culture of modern sport, which cannot always be fully understood through secular ethical inquiry. This is a unique and important addition to the current literature for a wide-range of fields including theology and religious studies, psychology, health studies, ethics and sports studies.

Author : Dominic Erdozain
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843835288

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The Problem of Pleasure by Dominic Erdozain Pdf

The book combines intellectual, cultural and social history to address a major area of encounter between Christianity and British culture: the world of leisure.

Author : Richard William Cox
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Sports
ISBN : 0719025923

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Sport in Britain by Richard William Cox Pdf

Author : Eric Bain-Selbo,D. Gregory Sapp
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781472506986

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Understanding Sport as a Religious Phenomenon by Eric Bain-Selbo,D. Gregory Sapp Pdf

Readers are introduced to a range of theoretical and methodological approaches used to understand religion – including sociology, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology – and how they can be used to understand sport as a religious phenomenon. Topics include the formation of powerful communities among fans and the religious experience of the fan, myth, symbols and rituals and the sacrality of sport, and sport and secularization. Case studies are taken from around the world and include the Olympics (ancient and modern), football in the UK, the All Blacks and New Zealand national identity, college football in the American South, and gymnastics. Ideal for classroom use, Understanding Sport as a Religious Phenomenon illuminates the nature of religion through sports phenomena and is a much-needed contribution to the field of religion and popular culture.

Author : Frances Knight
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317067245

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Religion, Identity and Conflict in Britain: From the Restoration to the Twentieth Century by Frances Knight Pdf

The British state between the mid-seventeenth century to the early twentieth century was essentially a Christian state. Christianity permeated society, defining the rites of passage - baptism, first communion, marriage and burial - that shaped individual lives, providing a sense of continuity between past, present and future generations, and informing social institutions and voluntary associations. Yet this religious conception of state and society was also the source of conflict. The Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 brought limited toleration for Protestant Dissenters, who felt unable to worship in the established Church, and there were challenges to faith raised by biblical and historical scholarship, science, moral questioning and social dislocations and unrest. This book brings together a distinguished team of authors who explore the interactions of religion, politics and culture that shaped and defined modern Britain. They consider expressions of civic consciousness in the expanding towns and cities, the growth of Welsh national identity, movements for popular education and temperance reform, and the influence of organised sport, popular journalism, and historical writing in defining national life. Most importantly, the contributors highlight the vital role of religious faith and religious institutions in the understanding of the modern British state.

Author : Dr Frances Knight,Dr John Morgan-Guy,Professor Stewart J Brown
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409472223

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Religion, Identity and Conflict in Britain: From the Restoration to the Twentieth Century by Dr Frances Knight,Dr John Morgan-Guy,Professor Stewart J Brown Pdf

The British state between the mid-seventeenth century to the early twentieth century was essentially a Christian state. Christianity permeated society, defining the rites of passage - baptism, first communion, marriage and burial - that shaped individual lives, providing a sense of continuity between past, present and future generations, and informing social institutions and voluntary associations. Yet this religious conception of state and society was also the source of conflict. The Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 brought limited toleration for Protestant Dissenters, who felt unable to worship in the established Church, and there were challenges to faith raised by biblical and historical scholarship, science, moral questioning and social dislocations and unrest. This book brings together a distinguished team of authors who explore the interactions of religion, politics and culture that shaped and defined modern Britain. They consider expressions of civic consciousness in the expanding towns and cities, the growth of Welsh national identity, movements for popular education and temperance reform, and the influence of organised sport, popular journalism, and historical writing in defining national life. Most importantly, the contributors highlight the vital role of religious faith and religious institutions in the understanding of the modern British state.

Author : William J Baker
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780674020443

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Playing with God by William J Baker Pdf

Like no other nation on earth, Americans eagerly blend their religion and sports. This book traces this dynamic relationship from the Puritan condemnation of games as sinful in the seventeenth century to the near deification of athletic contests in our own day.

Author : Jeffrey Scholes,Randall Balmer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781000636178

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Religion and Sport in North America by Jeffrey Scholes,Randall Balmer Pdf

From athletes praising God to pastors using sport metaphors in the pulpit, the association between sport and religion in North America is often considered incidental. Yet religion and sport have been tightly intertwined for millennia and continue to inform, shape, and critique one another. Moreover, sport, rather than being a solely secular activity, is one of the most important sites for debates over gender, race, capitalism, the media, and civil religion. Traditionally, scholarly writings on religion and sport have focused on the question of whether sport is a religion, using historical, philosophical, theological, and sociological insights to argue this matter. While these efforts sought to answer an important question, contemporary issues related to sports were neglected, such as globalization, commercialization, feminism, masculinity, critical race theory, and the ethics of doping. This volume contains lively, up-to-date essays from leading figures in the field to fill this scholarly gap. It treats religion as an indispensable prism through which to view sports, and vice versa. This book is ideal for students approaching the topic of religion and sport. It will also be of interest to scholars studying sociology of religion, sociology of sport, religion and race, religion and gender, religion and politics, and sport in general.

Author : David Hempton,Hugh McLeod
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198798071

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Secularization and Religious Innovation in the North Atlantic World by David Hempton,Hugh McLeod Pdf

In the early twenty-first century it had become a cliché that there was a "God Gap" between a more religious United States and a more secular Europe. The apparent religious differences between the United States and western Europe continue to be a focus of intense and sometimes bitter debate between three of the main schools in the sociology of religion. According to the influential "Secularization Thesis," secularization has been an integral part of the processes of modernization in the Western world since around 1800. For proponents of this thesis, the United States appears as an anomaly and they accordingly give considerable attention to explaining why it is different. For other sociologists, however, the apparently high level of religiosity in the USA provides a major argument in their attempts to refute the Thesis. Secularization and Religious Innovation in the North Atlantic World provides a systematic comparison between the religious histories of the United States and western European countries from the eighteenth to the late twentieth century, noting parallels as well as divergences, examining their causes and especially highlighting change over time. This is achieved by a series of themes which seem especially relevant to this agenda, and in each case the theme is considered by two scholars. The volume examines whether American Christians have been more innovative, and if so how far this explains the apparent "God Gap." It goes beyond the simple American/European binary to ask what is "American" or "European" in the Christianity of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and in what ways national or regional differences outweigh these commonalities.

Author : T. Cockburn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137292070

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Rethinking Children's Citizenship by T. Cockburn Pdf

This book explores the relationship between children and citizenship, analyzing international perspectives on citizenship and human rights and developing new methods for facilitating the recognition of children as participating agents within society.

Author : Hugh Mcleod
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1996-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349244775

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Religion and Society in England, 1850-1914 by Hugh Mcleod Pdf

Victorians liked to refer to England as 'a Christian country'. But what did this mean at the level of everyday life? The book begins with a social portrait of each of the characteristic forms of religion that flourished in Victorian England, including Anglican, Dissenters, Catholics, Jews, Secularists and the indifferent. It goes on to analyse, making extensive use of oral history, the pervasive and many-sided influence of Christianity before considering the limits of this influence. The forms of Christianity most typical of this time are then considered, with special emphasis on Evangelism at home and abroad and differences between male and female religiosity. Finally, there is an extended discussion on the religious crises of the later Victorian and Edwardian period.

Author : Dennis Brailsford
Publisher : London : Routledge & K. Paul ; Toronto : University of Toronto P
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015005257780

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Sport and Society by Dennis Brailsford Pdf

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Vincent F. Biondo,Richard D. Hecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1197 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780313342790

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Religion and Everyday Life and Culture by Vincent F. Biondo,Richard D. Hecht Pdf

This intriguing three-volume set explores the ways in which religion is bound to the practice of daily life and how daily life is bound to religion. In Religion and Everyday Life and Culture, 36 international scholars describe the impact of religious practices around the world, using rich examples drawn from personal observation. Instead of repeating generalizations about what religion should mean, these volumes examine how religions actually influence our public and private lives "on the ground," on a day-to-day basis. Volume one introduces regional histories of the world's religions and discusses major ritual practices, such as the Catholic Mass and the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca. Volume two examines themes that will help readers understand how religions interact with the practices of public life, describing the ways religions influence government, education, criminal justice, economy, technology, and the environment. Volume three takes up themes that are central to how religions are realized in the practices of individuals. In these essays, readers meet a shaman healer in South Africa, laugh with Buddhist monks, sing with Bob Dylan, cheer for Australian rugby, and explore Chicana and Iranian art.