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Training the Body: Perspectives from Religion, Physical Culture and Sport

Training the Body: Perspectives from Religion, Physical Culture and Sport

Torevell, David
Palmer, Clive
Rowan, Paul

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

Sports GeneralChristian LivingGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032123303
ISBN13: 9781032123301
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 13 2022
Pages: 236
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This is the first book to examine the body in training in the context of religion, sport and wider physical culture, offering important insight into the performative, social, cultural and gendered aspects of somatic discipline and exercise.

The book presents a series of fascinating thematic and case-study led chapters from around the world, examining topics including the martial discipline and symbolism of artistic gymnastics; religious interpretations of body vulnerability in the context of marathons; the religious language of corporeal training in sport and martial arts. Drawing on multi-disciplinary perspectives, from sport, religion, history and philosophy, the book explores the often contested and sometimes over-zealous application of training in both sport and religion and the ways in which this can cause harm to athletes or adherents.

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