The Eternal Present of Sport - Daniel A. Grano

The Eternal Present of Sport

Rethinking Sport and Religion

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
286 Seiten
2017
Temple University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-4399-1279-9 (ISBN)
107,20 inkl. MwSt
In his persuasive study The Eternal Present of Sport, Daniel Grano rethinks the sport-religion relationship by positioning sport as a source of theological trouble. Focusing on bodies, time, movement, and memory, he demonstrates how negative theology can be practically and theoretically useful as a critique of elite televised sport.
 
Grano asserts that it is precisely through sport’s highest religious ideals that controversies are taking shape and constituting points of political and social rupture. He examines issues of transcendence, “legacy”—e.g., “greatest ever,” or “all-time”—and “witnessing” through instant replay, which undermine institutional authority. Grano also reflects on elite athletes representing especially powerful embodiments of religious and social conflict, including around issues related to gender, sexuality, ability doping, traumatic brain injury, and institutional greed. 
 
Elite sport is in a period of profound crisis. It is through the ideals Grano analyzes that we can imagine a radically alternative future for elite sport.
 

Daniel A. Grano is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte.  

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Philadelphia PA
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Kommunikationswissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-4399-1279-3 / 1439912793
ISBN-13 978-1-4399-1279-9 / 9781439912799
Zustand Neuware
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