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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"sport and religion"”.
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College Basketball in Kentucky, Religion, and Distinguishing Between the Two: Concerns and Cautions for the Conversation on the Religiosity of Sports
<p>Academic analysis of sport and religion is still in an early and formative phase. Only in the past fifty years has the conversation of sport and religion substantially been revealed as subject matter for serious academic work. This thesis includes literature from various scholars interested in …
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The Parallel of Modern-Day Sport to Religion: An Analysis of How Society Has Transformed Sport into a Spiritual Practice
Sport has become a growing phenomenon in our society and is one of the most prominent customs of prevalent culture throughout the world. Religion, on the other hand, has always been very prevalent throughout the world and has been the foundation of the world. We as a society have shaped sports to …
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Implicit Religion and the Highly-Identified Sports Fan: An Ethnography of Cleveland Sports Fandom
Scholarly writing on the conflation of sport as a religion regularly concentrates onthe historical and institutional parallels with the religious dimensions of sport, focusing on ritual, community, sacred space, and other categories more traditionally associated with religious life. Instead, this …