| Skateboarding and Religion 2020 Edition Contributor(s): O'Connor, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 3030248593 ISBN-13: 9783030248598 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $42.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Sociology Of Sports - Social Science | Sociology Of Religion - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 201.7 |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.85 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book explores the ways in which religion is observed, performed, and organised in skateboard culture. Drawing on scholarship from the sociology of religion and the cultural politics of lifestyle sports, this work combines ethnographic research with media analysis to argue that the rituals of skateboarding provide participants with a rich cultural canvas for emotional and spiritual engagement. Paul O'Connor contends that religious identification in skateboarding is set to increase as participants pursue ways to both control and engage meaningfully with an activity that has become an increasingly mainstream and institutionalised sport. Religion is explored through the themes of myth, celebrity, iconography, pilgrimage, evangelism, cults, and self-help. |
