The Eternal Present of Sport

Rethinking Sport and Religion

Daniel A. Grano (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

286 Seiten

2017
Temple University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-4399-1280-5 (ISBN)

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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	25.05.2017
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	1-4399-1280-7 / 1439912807
ISBN-13	978-1-4399-1280-5 / 9781439912805
Zustand	Neuware