- The first-ever book to analyze the category of sport as a prophetic space in the United States
- Brings together leading scholars in the fields of Religion and Sport to examine a meaningful aspect of sport in the modern world
- Piques, using relevant case studies, the interests of undergraduate and graduate students, while also supplying theoretical frameworks for courses in religious and cultural studies
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- About this book
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Bringing together leading scholars in the fields of Religion and Sport, this book examines the prophetic dimension of sport, to arrive at a better understanding of the nature of sports in the United States. By detailing and analyzing particular sports, a portrait of sport as an important space for social and political critique emerges.
Sport is indisputably an important cultural phenomenon in the United States. Each year millions attend sporting events, track the statistics and lives of sports stars, collect memorabilia, engage in fantasy sports, and play various sporting games. But increasingly, sport is also a space for public articulations regarding social and political issues within the United States. What are we to make of these particular articulations? What do they tell us about the nature of sport in the United States? How are these social and political critiques formed? Why do sporting voices seem to carry more weight at this moment in history?
Ideally suited for use in undergraduate and graduate courses, this book offers a new way of thinking about the connection between sport and religion in a secularizing society. By analyzing various sports and particular historical moments, the chapters supply a unique example of the relevance of sport as it pertains to social and political critique.
- About the authors
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Terry Shoemaker holds a Lecturer position in the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. His research focuses on sites of resistance within religious communities and social pressures inherent in religious shifts.
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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On Prophetic Resistance: An Introduction
Pages 1-5
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Sport and Social Change: The Prophetic Dimension
Pages 7-14
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Who Is the Prophet? Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey, and the Integration of Baseball
Pages 15-24
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The Black Prophetic Fire of Colin Kaepernick
Pages 25-36
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Running the Prophetic Point: Basketball, Black Lives Matter, and Prophetic Imagination
Pages 37-49
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Prophetic Dimension of Sport
- Editors
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- Terry Shoemaker
- Series Title
- Briefs in Religion and Sport
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-02293-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-02293-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-02292-1
- Series ISSN
- 2510-5051
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VII, 57
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations
- Topics
