Jeffrey Scholes

Christianity, Race, and Sport (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a rigorously researched introduction to the relationship between Christianity, race, and sport in the United States. Christianity, Race, and Sport examines how Protestant Christianity and race have interacted, often to the detriment of Black bodies, throughout the sporting world over the last century. Important sporting figures and case studies discussed include:

• the sanctification of baseball player Jackie Robinson;
• the domestication of Muhammad Ali and George Foreman;
• religious expressions of athletes in the NFL;
• treatment of African American tennis player Serena Williams;
• Colin Kaepernick and his prophetic voice.

This accessible and conversational book is essential reading for undergraduate students approaching religion and race or religion and sport for the first time, as well as those working within the sociology of sport, sport studies, history of sport, or philosophy of sport.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000380026
• Artikelnr.: 61470372

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Scholes is associate professor of religious studies in the Department of Philosophy and the Director of the Center for Religious Diversity and Public Life at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Sanctification of Jackie Robinson 2. The Domestication of Muhammad
Ali and George Foreman 3. Pray the White Way: Religious Expression in the
NFL in Black and White 4. Dabo Swinney, Universal Whiteness, and a "Sin
Problem" 5. Serena Williams and Her Two "Gods" 6. The Black Prophetic Fire
of Colin Kaepernick