An Unholy Alliance: The Sacred and Modern SportsMercer University Press, 2004 - 410 pagina's An Unholy Alliance offers a dissenting view to the claim by a growing number of scholars that Sports are a new religion. The last few years have seen a spate of books that might be classified by a genre called "Sports Apologetics," that is, arguments defending or celebrating in one way or another the familiar and ongoing alliance in America between sports and religion. Recently, claims have been made by scholars that sports are an authentic religion in and of themselves. They make this startling assertion not by showing connections with the teachings of Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, or Moses, but by parallels between the rites of modern games and those of preliterate man that were "religious" in nature because they were designed to propitiate powers and to ward off evil for the tribes employing them. In this evocative book, Higgs and Braswell suggest that while sports may often be good things, they are not inherently divine. They do not focus on wide-spread abuse in sports as evidence for their counterargument. Rather, they question the use of mythological parallels from prehistory as justification for viewing sports as a religion. |
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... rites of modern games and those of preliterate man that were " religious " in nature because they were designed to propitiate powers and to ward off evil for the tribes employing them . In this evocative book , Higgs and Braswell ...
... rites of modern games and those of preliterate man that were " religious " in nature because they were designed to propitiate powers and to ward off evil for the tribes employing them . In this evocative book , Higgs and Braswell ...
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... rites of modern games with those of preliterate man that were " religious " because they were designed to propitiate powers and ward off evil for the tribes who employed them . Price's main source on mythology is Mircea Eliade , who is ...
... rites of modern games with those of preliterate man that were " religious " because they were designed to propitiate powers and ward off evil for the tribes who employed them . Price's main source on mythology is Mircea Eliade , who is ...
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... rites , much like many of our own , were sometimes notoriously violent , a feature often overlooked in apologetic texts . No mention is made in those texts of Violence and the Sacred , a highly acclaimed but neglected work by Rene ...
... rites , much like many of our own , were sometimes notoriously violent , a feature often overlooked in apologetic texts . No mention is made in those texts of Violence and the Sacred , a highly acclaimed but neglected work by Rene ...
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... rites and myths of previous , religiously oriented cultures . " This bold argument almost begs for challenge , which in the interest of dialectic if not dogma we are willing to provide . Our hope is not so much victory , the sine qua ...
... rites and myths of previous , religiously oriented cultures . " This bold argument almost begs for challenge , which in the interest of dialectic if not dogma we are willing to provide . Our hope is not so much victory , the sine qua ...
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... rites of various competing denominations , especially of an evangelical character that sometimes approaches sporting events in the theatrical display of emotion . Whether sports with all their expenditure of energy , injuries , and ...
... rites of various competing denominations , especially of an evangelical character that sometimes approaches sporting events in the theatrical display of emotion . Whether sports with all their expenditure of energy , injuries , and ...
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An Unholy Alliance: The Sacred and Modern Sports Robert J. Higgs,Michael Braswell Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2004 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 397 - I know I have the best of time and space, and was never measured and never will be measured. I tramp a perpetual journey, (come listen all !) My signs are a rain-proof coat, good shoes, and a staff cut from the woods, No friend of mine takes his ease in my chair, I have no chair, no church, no philosophy...
Pagina 123 - This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD'S, and he will give you into our hands.
Pagina 123 - He delighteth not in the strength of the horse : he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man. The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.
Pagina 185 - Once, as I rode out into the woods for my health, in 1737, having alighted from my horse in a retired place, as my manner commonly has been, to walk for divine contemplation and prayer, I had a view that for me was extraordinary, of the glory of the Son of God, as Mediator between God and man, and his wonderful, great, full, pure and sweet grace and love, and meek and gentle condescension.
Pagina 166 - Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.
Pagina 123 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield ; but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Pagina 190 - I see, smell, taste, hear, feel, that everlasting Something to which we are allied, at once our maker, our abode, our destiny, our very Selves; the one historic truth, the most remarkable fact which can become the distinct and uninvited subject of our thought, the actual glory of the universe; the only fact which a human being cannot avoid recognizing, or in some way forget or dispense with.
Pagina 60 - If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweetscented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal, — that is your success.
Pagina 405 - If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?
Pagina 397 - This day before dawn I ascended a hill and look'd at the crowded heaven, And I said to my spirit, When we become the enfolders of those orbs, and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them, shall we be fill'd and satisfied then? And my spirit said, No, we but level that lift to pass and continue beyond.