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SKU (ISBN): 9781932792102
ISBN10: 1932792104
Binding: Trade Paper
Published: February 2010
Publisher: Baylor University Press
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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 faith statements given prominence in their mission statements. Here, in this thoughtful, narrative-driven exploration, Hoffman retells numerous fascinating stories from the world of ancient and contemporary sports and draws on the history of the Christian tradition as he seeks to answer the question What would it mean to think Christianly about sport?
SKU (ISBN): 9781932792102
ISBN10: 1932792104
Binding: Trade Paper
Published: February 2010
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Print On Demand Product
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