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The Eternal Present of Sport: Rethinking Sport and Religion - Softcover

Grano, Daniel A.

 
9781439912805: The Eternal Present of Sport: Rethinking Sport and Religion
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1439912807 ISBN 13: 9781439912805
Publisher: Temple University Press, 2017

Synopsis

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.
 

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About the Author

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

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Publisher
Temple University Press
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1439912807
ISBN 13 
9781439912805
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
286