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...
This book provides a systematic and interdisciplinary analysis of the published literature and practical initiatives on the sports-Christianity interf...
This interdisciplinary text examines the sports-Christianity interface from Protestant and Catholic perspectives. In addition to a "systematic review of literature," field-pioneering contributors such as Michael Novak, Shirl Hoffman, Joseph Price and Robert Higgs address a wide range of topics from the sporting world, including biblical athletic metaphors, disability, evangelism, professionalism and celebrity, humility and pride, genetic enhancement technologies, stereotypes, sport as art and British and American historical analyses of sport and Christianity. Insightful chapters from Scott...
This interdisciplinary text examines the sports-Christianity interface from Protestant and Catholic perspectives. In addition to a "systematic revi...
This book provides a major contribution to the religious and theological study of sport. It explores the dialectical relationship between sport and Christianity across diverse global cultures, extending beyond a Western perspective of Christianity. It contains contributions from leading experts within the field to provide ethnographic, theoretical and theological reflections on sport in Africa, Australasia, Asia and Europe. Its chapters also examine violent sports such as boxing and mixed martial arts from a Christian standpoint, as well as reflecting on sporting celebrity and the theology...
This book provides a major contribution to the religious and theological study of sport. It explores the dialectical relationship between sport and...
