An Unholy Alliance

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ISBN: 9780865549562 | 0865549567
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 10/30/2004

An Unholy Alliance > ISBN13: 9780865549562

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Michael C. Braswell is a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at East Tennessee State University.

Preface

Foreword

xviii

Joseph L. Price

Sports and Religion: Peanut Butter and Jelly or Oil and Water?

(15)

What's in a Name? Working Definitions of Sports and Religion

(12)

The Sacred and the Holy: Distinguishing the Indefinable

(28)

Wisdom and Strength: Two Faces of the Holy

(22)

The Religion of Sports and the Media: Marshall McLuhan among the Apologists

(25)

The Cross in the Coliseum: Sacred Ground and Battle Ground

103

(21)

Religion, Sports, and War: The Conflicted History of the Knight and the Shepherd

124

(29)

The Religion of Sports and That Old-time Religion: In the Steps of Mircea Eliade

153

(26)

Varieties of Mystical Experiences: Old and New

179

(33)

The Holy and the ``Flow'': Ultimacy Versus Intimacy

212

(27)

Ethics, Values, and Excellence: Testing the Spirits

239

(34)

The Statue of Zeus and Creation of Adam Athletic Art as Sacred and Holy

273

(28)

Humor and the Eternal Triangle: Mind, Sports, and Religion

301

(36)

The High Seriousness of the Religion of Sports: A Return to Polytheism?

337

(30)

Apotheosis Versus Atonement

367

(20)

Epilogue

387

(2)

Appendix 1: Religious Dichotomies

389

(3)

Appendix 2: Textual Notes on Comparative Theology

392

(3)

Index

395

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An Unholy Alliance

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