An Unholy Alliance
The Sacred And Modern Sports (Sports and Religion)
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Publication
2004-10-30 - Mercer University Press
Language
English
Word Count
102,500 words, Guess
Page Count
410 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8317695M
- ISBN-139780865549234
- ISBN-100865549230
- OCLC Control Number56938104
- OCLC Control Numberunholyalliancesa0000higg
and 2 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2004020947
- Goodreads686652
Classifications
- LCCGV706.42 .H53 2004
Description
"An Unholy Alliance offers a dissenting view to the claim by a growing number of scholars that sports are a new religion. The last few years have seen a spate of books that might be classified by a genre called "Sports Apologetics," that is, arguments defending or celebrating in one way or another the familiar and ongoing alliance in America between sports and religion." "In this book, Higgs and Braswell suggest that while sports may often be good things, they are not inherently divine. They do not focus on widespread abuse in sports as evidence for their counterargument. Rather, they question the use of mythological parallels from prehistory as justification for viewing sports as a religion."--Jacket.
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