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  • Christianity, Race, and Sport

    by Jeffrey Scholes ...
    This book provides a rigorously researched introduction to the relationship between Christianity, race, and sport in the United States. Christianity, Race, and Sport examines how Protestant Christianity and race have interacted, often to the detriment of Black bodies, throughout the sporting world over the last century. Important sporting figures and case studies discussed include:the ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Vocation and the Politics of Work

    Popular Theology in a Consumer Culture

    by Jeffrey Scholes ...
    Since Martin Luther, vocations or callings have had a close relationship with daily work. It is a give-and-take relationship in which the meaning of a vocation typically negotiates with the kinds of work available (and vice-versa) at any given time. While “vocation language” still has currency in Western culture, today’s predominant meaning of vocation has little to do with the actual work ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

  • Religion and Sports in American Culture

    by Jeffrey Scholes, Raphael Sassower ...
    Religion and Sports in American Culture explores the relationship between religion and modern sports in America. Whether found in the religious purpose of ancient Olympic Games, in curses believed to plague the Chicago Cubs, or in the figure of Tim Tebow, religion and sports have been and are still tightly intertwined. While there is widespread suspicion that sports are slowly encroaching on the ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • Religion and Sport in North America

    Critical Essays for the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Jeffrey Scholes, Randall Balmer ...
    From athletes praising God to pastors using sport metaphors in the pulpit, the association between sport and religion in North America is often considered incidental. Yet religion and sport have been tightly intertwined for millennia and continue to inform, shape, and critique one another. Moreover, sport, rather than being a solely secular activity, is one of the most important sites for debates ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Child's Play

    Sport in Kids' Worlds

    by Don Sabo, Phil Veliz, Douglas Hartmann, Alex Manning, Cheryl Cooky, Lauren Rauscher, Toben F Nelson, Jeffrey Montez de Oca, Jeffrey Scholes, Brandon Meyer, Murray J. N. Drummond, Chelsey Thul, Nicole M. LaVoi, Torrie Hazelwood, Fatimah Hussein, Ann Travers, Michael Kehler, A. James McKeever, William A. Corsaro ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Sport and Society
    Is sport good for kids? When answering this question, both critics and advocates of youth sports tend to fixate on matters of health, whether condemning contact sports for their concussion risk or prescribing athletics as a cure for the childhood obesity epidemic. Child’s Play presents a more nuanced examination of the issue, considering not only the physical impacts of youth athletics, but its ... Read more

    $37.39 CAD

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  • The Rise of Victimhood Culture

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    by Bradley Campbell, Jason Manning ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
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  • Know What I Mean?

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    Whether along race, class or generational lines, hip-hop music has been a source of controversy since the beats got too big and the voices too loud for the block parties that spawned them. America has condemned and commended this music and the culture that inspires it. Dubbed "the Hip-Hop Intellectual" by critics and fans for his pioneering explorations of rap music in the academy and beyond, ... Read more

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