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Lone Sailors And Spiritual Insights: Cases of Sport And Peril at Sea (Mellen Studies in Sports) - Hardcover
Hutch (religion and philosophical studies, U. of Queensland) explores character formation in sport, specifically sailing. He examines sailing and other sport as a ritual process, building from his own experience as well as his research into that of others, working from the odysseys into the uncharted waters of classic times up to the extreme solo sailors of today. He covers aquatic symbolism, the water as an element of competition and anger, competitive racing and leisurely cruising, stages of technical self-reliance, spirituality, wisdom in the solo sailor, and case studies of those who practice self-excess, the cosmic quest, the quest for the personal best, the dream, the nightmare, and helpless peril while on the sea. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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About the Author:
Jim McKay is a Reader in Sociology in the School of Social Science at The University of Queensland, where he teaches courses on gender and popular culture. He is a former editor of the International Review for the Sociology of Sport, and his most recent books are Men, Masculinities, and Sport (Sage, 2000) and Globalization and Sport: Playing the World (Sage, 2001).
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"In the future when the historian sifts through the debris of our era, oversaturated with information, once the dross has been cast aside, more than a few of the things that remain will be bound in the covers of The Edwin Mellen Press. - Charles S. Kraszewski King's College "In the final analysis, the author manages to transcend sport and provide us with some maxims about life in situations that provoke us to confront our mortality and to eschew old paradigms for new... or to succumb to old paradigms. He aptly describes the dynamic tension between the tenacious adherence to technical self-reliance and the compelling nature of the moral presence... a lack of knowledge of sailing and theology is not a deterrent to an appreciation for the unique yet accessible thesis of this book." - Thomas Merluzzi, Professor of Psychology, University of Notre Dame "In this engaging and well-written volume, the author contributes to the psychological study of religion through an exploration of sport and spirituality among solo sailors. To venture out to sea alone, he suggests, is to push oneself to extremes, to face serious existential realities of life and death, and to test - to the ultimate - the quality of one's character... This book will interest psychologists of religion, psychologists of sport, and many others. It is a wise book, with much to teach us about spirituality, morality and meaning, whether our sea journeys are literal of metaphorical." - Diane Jonte-Pace, Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Santa Clara University "The author has written a book that should be of considerable interest to sport psychologists, theologians, philosophers and any others concerned about how the spiritual can be encountered in everyday life... the stories [the author] tells are often based around real events and personalities and it is this quality that allows the reader to grasp complex ideas with remarkably little effort... The admirable result of this is a book that will appeal to dedicated sailors, academics and athletes of whatever level and sport who recognise that definitions of what it is to be human must include reference to something beyond the purely material... " - Mark Nesti, Reader in Sport Psychology, York St John College "As the author notes in this wonderful book, the long-distance sailor caught in heavy seas is a symbol that humans are 'only marginal at best amidst the grand and dramatic forces of the universe'... the author brings together his deep background in the psychology of religion and his avocation of sailing to examine the spiritual lives of contemporary solo long-distance yachtsmen (and women... other readers will find... that the author has distilled ways of being religious - or, to use the new phraseology, ways of living spiritually - that we see in ourselves, in our companions and even in our political leaders. The author is a good skipper who takes his readers on a fascinating voyage of self-discovery." - Dennis Klass, Professor Emeritus, Webster University"
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- PublisherEdwin Mellen Pr
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 077346039X
- ISBN 13 9780773460393
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages411
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