Christianity as public religion : a justification for using a Christian sociological approach for studying the social scientific aspects of sport

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Deutscher übersetzter Titel:Christentum als öffentliche Religion : eine Rechtfertigung für die Anwendung eines christlich-soziologischen Ansatzes zur Untersuchung der sozialwissenschaftlichen Aspekte des Sports
Autor:Gibbons, Tom; Watson, Nick J.; Mierzwinski, Mark
Erschienen in:Sport in society
Veröffentlicht:22 (2019), 2 (Christianity and Social Scientific Perspectives on Sport), S. 209-223, Lit.
Format: Literatur (SPOLIT)
Publikationstyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
Medienart: Elektronische Ressource (online) Gedruckte Ressource
Sprache:Englisch
ISSN:1743-0437, 1743-0445, 1461-0981
DOI:10.1080/17430437.2017.1360565
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Erfassungsnummer:PU201902001504
Quelle:BISp

Abstract des Autors

The vast majority of social scientific studies of sport have been secular in nature and/or have tended to ignore the importance of studying the religious aspects of sport. In light of this, a recent study has sought to encourage sociologists of sport not to divorce the ‘religious’ and the ‘sacred’ from their studies. In response to this call, the goal of the current essay is to explore how the conception of Christianity as ‘public religion’ can be utilized to help justify the use of a Christian sociological approach for studying the social scientific aspects of sport. After making a case for Christianity as public religion, we conclude that many of the sociological issues inherent in modern sport are an indirect result of its increasing secularization and argue that this justifies the need for a Christian sociological approach. We encourage researchers to use the Bible, the tools of Christian theology and sociological concepts together, so to inform analyses of modern sport from a Christian perspective.