The Eternal Present of Sport

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  • The Eternal Present of Sport Book Detail

  • Author : Daniel A. Grano
  • Release Date : 2017-06-01
  • Publisher : Temple University Press
  • Genre : Sports & Recreation
  • Pages : 0
  • ISBN 13 : 9781439912799
  • File Size : 65,65 MB
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The Eternal Present of Sport by Daniel A. Grano PDF Summary

Book Description: In his persuasive study The Eternal Present of Sport, Daniel Grano rethinks the sport-religion relationship by positioning sport as a source of theological trouble. Focusing on bodies, time, movement, and memory, he demonstrates how negative theology can be practically and theoretically useful as a critique of elite televised sport. Grano asserts that it is precisely through sport’s highest religious ideals that controversies are taking shape and constituting points of political and social rupture. He examines issues of transcendence, “legacy”—e.g., “greatest ever,” or “all-time”—and “witnessing” through instant replay, which undermine institutional authority. Grano also reflects on elite athletes representing especially powerful embodiments of religious and social conflict, including around issues related to gender, sexuality, ability doping, traumatic brain injury, and institutional greed. Elite sport is in a period of profound crisis. It is through the ideals Grano analyzes that we can imagine a radically alternative future for elite sport.

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