Good Game: Christianity and the Culture of Sports

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Good Game: Christianity and the Culture of Sports
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In recent years the United States has seen an influx of Christian athletes and coaches into big-time sports, as well as a heightened importance placed on sports in church programs and enormous platforms for intercollegiate sports at Christian schools and colleges. However, as Shirl Hoffman critiques, a Christian vision of sport remains merely superficialâ€•replete with prayers before free throws and praises after touchdowns but offering little if any alternative vision from the secular sports culture. Far from being the kind of life-affirming, faith-affirming events that they could be, games played in Christian college gymnasiums, for example, too often end up as mockeries of the faith statements given prominence in their mission statements.

Here, in this thoughtful, narrative-driven exploration, Hoffman retells numerous fascinating stories from the world of ancient and contemporary sports and draws on the history of the Christian tradition as he seeks to answer the question "What would it mean to think Christianly about sport?"
Country USA
Brand Baylor University Press
Manufacturer Baylor University Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2010-01-15
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781932792102

Country	USA
Brand	Baylor University Press
Manufacturer	Baylor University Press
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2010-01-15
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781932792102

Good Game: Christianity and the Culture of Sports

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