Sport as Liturgy: Towards a Radical Orthodoxy of Sport

The purpose of this paper is to suggest that sport can be understood as a form of engagement with the fundamental contingency and vulnerability of the human condition, and as such that it expresses a yearning for meaning in a modern society that offers only the illusion of meaning. Sport, at its mos...

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Main Author: Edgar, Andrew (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2012
In: Studies in Christian ethics
Year: 2012, Volume: 25, Issue: 1, Pages: 20-34
Further subjects:B lifeworld
B Loss
B Catherine Pickstock
B Liturgy
B Vulnerability
B T. W. Adorno
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