Re-Telling the "Story so Far": Reconsidering Sport and Spirituality in Light of the New Age

Autor/in	Smith, Zachary T.
Titel	Re-Telling the "Story so Far": Reconsidering Sport and Spirituality in Light of the New Age
Quelle	In: Quest, 71 (2019) 4, S.497-516 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Smith, Zachary T.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-6297
DOI	10.1080/00336297.2019.1578670
Schlagwörter	Athletics; Religion; Christianity; Religious Factors; Spiritual Development; Beliefs; Philosophy; Influences; World Views; Psychology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Leichtathletik; Christentum; Belief; Glaube; Philosophie; Influence; Einfluss; Einflussfaktor; World view; Weltanschauung; Psychologie
Abstract	Sport and spirituality is a burgeoning academic area of study (Jirasek, 2015). To date, the field has been dominated by Christian scholarship (Watson & Parker, 2011). Incidentally, the history of the field is often narrated from a Christocentric viewpoint. Such narratives downplay, denigrate, or ignore the impact of other religious ideas. This article highlights New Age thinking as a primary driver of sport and spirituality, and problematizes exclusively Christianized historiographies of the field. Exposing connections to New Age figures and ideas, this article demonstrates the necessity of a more nuanced narrative of the field of sport and spirituality. It concludes by suggesting that scholars of sport should critically attend to the historiographical, theoretical, and methodological developments of a field, as these are inherently political practices. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01