Good Game: Christianity and the Culture of Sports by Shirl James Hoffman

Good Game: Christianity and the Culture of Sports


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ISBN: 9781932792102 | 356 pages | 18 Mb

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Good Game: Christianity and the Culture of Sports Shirl James Hoffman
Publisher: Baylor University Press


In recent years the United States has seen an influx of Christian athletes and coaches into big-time sports, as well as a heightened importance placed on sports in church programs and enormous platforms for intercollegiate sports at Christian schools and colleges. However, as Shirl Hoffman critiques, a Christian vision of sport remains merely superficial--replete with prayers before free throws and praises after touchdowns but offering little if any alternative vision from the secular sports culture. Far from being the kind of life-affirming, faith-affirming events that they could be, games played in Christian college gymnasiums, for example, too often end up as mockeries of the ...

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