Playing for God : evangelical women and the unintended consequences of sports ministry /

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When sports ministry first emerged in the 1950s and 1960s, its founders imagined male celebrity athletes as powerful salespeople who could deliver a message of Christian strength: "If athletes can endorse shaving cream, razor blades, and cigarettes, surely they can endorse the Lord, too,"...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Blazer, Annie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2015]
Colección:North American religions.
Temas:
Christian athletes > Religious life.
Church work with teenagers > Catholic Church.
Femininity > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Pastorale des adolescents > Église catholique.
Féminité > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
RELIGION > Christian Life > General.
RELIGION > Christian Ministry > Adult.
RELIGION > Christian Ministry > Counseling & Recovery.
Church work with teenagers > Catholic Church
Femininity > Religious aspects > Christianity
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Practicing faith: sports ministry and evangelicalism in America
  • Making the save: conversion and witnessing
  • Transcendent intimacy: the embodied pleasures of sport
  • Spiritual warfare and Christlikeness: narratives of bodies and battlefields
  • Wearing our shorts a little longer: testing the boundaries of evangelical femininity
  • Challenging the call: sexual desire and sexual deviance
  • Faith off the field: negotiating gender at home
  • Conclusion: A tale of unintended consequences.

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