Religion and the Rise of Sport in England David Hugh Mcleod

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0192859986
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0192859983
• Author(s): David Hugh Mcleod

Both religion and sport stir deep emotions, shape identities, and inspire powerful loyalties. They have sometimes been in competition for people’s resources of time and money, but can also be mutually supportive.

We live in a world where sport seems to be everywhere. Not only is there saturation media coverage but governments extol the benefits of sport for nation and individual, and in 2019 the Church of England appointed a Bishop for Sport. The religious world has not always looked so kindly on sport. In the early nineteenth century, Evangelical Christians led campaigns to ban sports deemed cruel, brutal or disorderly. But from the 1850s Christian and other religious leaders turned from attacking ‘bad’ sports to promoting ‘good’ ones. The pace of change accelerated in the 1960s, as commercialization of sport intensified and Sunday sport became established, while the world of religion was transformed by increasing secularization, a resurgent Evangelicalism, and the growth of a multi-faith society.

Table contents:

Introduction
1:’E Mun be Baited, it’s a Rule’: Old and New Sporting Worlds
2:’Puritanic Precision and Propriety’: The Warfare between Religion and Sport
3:’Every Man is Born with a Body as well as an Intellect and a Soul’: Peace Talks Begin
4:’The Affinity between Christianity and Athletics’
5:’He is a Lover of all Legitimate Sports’: Affinities and Taboos
6:’Our Congregations have Emigrated to the Playing Fields, the Golf Course and the River’: Sport and Secularization
7:’Jesus Christ was a Sportsman’: The Era of Diffusive Christianity
8:’A Passion not merely a Recreation’: The Religion of Sport
9:Religions in the Age of Sport
Conclusion
Bibliography

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