Sporting Space, Sacred Space: A Theology of Sporting Place

Religion often designates locations that are considered sacred, marked off from ordinary space. Sporting venues also take on a significance for players and supporters that is seldom adequately explained in solely sporting terms. Can theological understandings of place illuminate the way in which pla...

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Main Author: Ellis, Robert R. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2019]
In: Religions
Year: 2019, Volume: 10, Issue: 8, Pages: 1-16
Further subjects:B religion and sport
B Sacred Space
B Place
B theology and sport
B Sacrament
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