9780313287299-0313287295-Religion and Sport: The Meeting of Sacred and Profane (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture)

Religion and Sport: The Meeting of Sacred and Profane (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture)

ISBN-13: 9780313287299
ISBN-10: 0313287295
Author: Charles S. Prebish
Publication date: 1992
Publisher: Praeger
Format: Hardcover 264 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780313287299
ISBN-10: 0313287295
Author: Charles S. Prebish
Publication date: 1992
Publisher: Praeger
Format: Hardcover 264 pages

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Religion and Sport: The Meeting of Sacred and Profane (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture) (ISBN-13: 9780313287299 and ISBN-10: 0313287295), written by authors Charles S. Prebish, was published by Praeger in 1992. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Religion and Sport: The Meeting of Sacred and Profane (Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Prebish offers a thoughtful look at sport as a religious experience and argues that sport has become an American religion. The first section of the work contains three chapters that provide a definitional, theoretical, and methodological frame for examining sport as religion. The five chapters that follow, each written by an authority in the field, treat different aspects of the religious dimension of sport. These chapters represent the most important writings on sport as a religious experience, and each author offers a full and thoughtful discussion rather than a cursory overview. A final chapter by Prebish closes the work.The first chapter of the book challenges traditional assumptions about religion and encourages the reader to reconsider what religion is. The second chapter examines the difficulty of defining sport, and the third probes the close relationship between sport and religion. The anthology that follows contains chapters that examine religion and sport from sociological, historical, theological, philosophical, and psychological perspectives. A concluding bibliography lists material for further reading.
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