Eternal Present of Sport - Rethinking Sport and Religion Grano Daniel A.Paperback
Eternal Present of Sport - Rethinking Sport and Religion Grano Daniel A.Paperback In his persuasive study The Eternal Present of Sport, Daniel Grano rethinks the sport-religion relationship by…
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Eternal Present of Sport - Rethinking Sport and Religion Grano Daniel A.Paperback
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. He examines issues of transcendence, "legacy"-e.g., "greatest ever," or "all-time"-and "witnessing" through instant replay, which undermine institutional authority. 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.
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