Religion and Sports : an Introduction and Case Studies.
Rebecca T. Alpert is professor of religion at Temple University. She is the author of Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition, which won a Lambda Literary Award and Award for Scholarship from the Jewish Women's Caucus of the Association for Women in Ps...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Table of Contents; A Note to Instructors on How to Use This Text; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Why Study Religion and Sports; Part 1: Why Do People Think Sports Are a Religion?; Case 1. Friday Night Lights: High School Football as Religion in Odessa; Case 2. Oscar Pistorius and What It Means to Be Human; Part 2: Does Religion Have a Place in Sports, or Sports in Religion?; Case 3. Zen and Archery in Japan; Case 4. O God of Players: Prayer and Women's Basketball at a Catholic College; Case 5. Juju: Witchcraft and African Football; Case 6. Jewish Umpires and Baseball Chapel.
- Part 3: What Happens When Religion and Sports Come Into Conflict?Case 7. American Jews and the Boycott of the 1936 Berlin Olympics; Case 8. The Belleville Grays and Playing Sports on the Sabbath; Case 9. Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf and the National Anthem Ritual in the NBA; Case 10. Judo and Hijab at the Olympics; Part 4: Religion and Ethical Dilemmas in Sports; Case 11. Caroline Pla and CYO Football: Should Girls Be Allowed to Compete with Boys?; Case 12. Should the Roman Catholic Church Condemn Bullfighting in Spain?
- Case 13. Florida State University Seminoles' Osceola and Renegade: Mascots or SymbolsCase 14. Jack Taylor's 138 Points: Is "Running Up the Score" Christian?; Case 15. Conclusion: What Would Phil Jackson Do?; Notes; Index.