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Religion in Sport
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Religion in Sport: Is It a Promising Combination?
Ice Breaker
Introduction to Chapter 15
- What did you find interesting in the chapter?
- What is your experience regarding religion in sport?
Religion
RELIGION
"a socially shared belief system comprised of the words, symbols, metaphors, myths, and rituals that people use to think about their relationship with the supernatural realm and communicate their thoughts to others" (Coakley, 2021)
RELIGIONS ARE POWERFUL
Religions are Powerful
Used as sense-making perspectives and guides for action
i.e: if you do good for others, then you will receive good back
SOCIALISTS & RELIGION
SOCIALISTS & RELIGION
- Observe how people use religious beliefs to give meaning to themselves, experiences, and world around them
- inform people's feelings, thoughts, and actions
Similarities & Differences between Sports and Religion
What are the similarities and differences between sports and religion?
Similarities
Similarities
- Disciplined quest for perfection in mind, body, and spirit
- Rituals before, during, and after major events
- Heroes and stories about their accomplishments
- A focus that distracts attention from social, political, and economic issues
Part I
- What brings the "true and essential natures" of sport and religion together to create similarities?
- Divine Inspiration of Religion and the Human Nature of Sport
Differences
Differences
- Religious beliefs/meanings are fundamentally sacred
- The purpose is to transcend the conditions of the material world
- Easter Sunday
- Sport beliefs/meanings are fundamentally secular
- The purpose is essentially rooted in material reality and victory
- Superbowl Sunday
"It illustrates that religions, like sports, are socially constructed cultural practices, which change in connection with larger social forces and contexts. To represent Jesus playing a heavy-contact sport that involves brutal body contact and borderline violence is to re-imagine biblical portrayals of him in light of the cultural importance of football in the United States." (Coakley, 2021).
Part II
- In your opinion, are sports and religion more similar or are they more different?
RELIGION PT. 2
(Coakley, 2021, pg. 581)
USE OF RELIGION
How is Religion Used? By Coaches, athletes, teams?
- cope with uncertainty
- stay out of trouble
- give meaning to sports participation and into balanced perspective
- est. team solidarity and unity
- reaffirm motivation and social control on teams
- achieve personal and competitive success
Sports & World Religions
SPORTS & WORLD RELIGIONS
Buddhism & Hinduism: Transending Self
- emphasize physical and spiritual discipline
Judaism: Sports and struggle
- weak link between Judaism and sport
- Jews and their participation in sport is strong
Shinto: Sumo in Japan
- combination of sacred religious ritual and a fight to the death
China: Religion and life
- Humans should strive to live in accord with energy and forces of nature
Native Americans: Merging the spiritual and physical
- rituals reaffirm social connections within specific cutural groups & gain skills for group survival
Challenges for Muslim Women in Sport
ALLAH'S WILL
(Coakley, 2021, pg. 570)
Conclusion
- You have just began a new job with one of the highest-ranked youth basketball clubs in the nation, located in Salt Lake City, Utah.
- Some parents of the athletes meet with you to tell you that they will be switching teams if you do not tell the coach that he cannot have the team say the Lord's prayer at each game anymore.
- The coach argues that there is no rule against it because there are no government funds received by the club.