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    For the Love of Suffering: The Athlete of God
    (2019) Won, Mark

    This study takes an interdisciplinary approach to examine the relationship

    between sport and spiritual formation. By inviting to the conversation contributions

    from sociological research, personal narratives, biblical themes and philosophical

    arguments, it aims to examine how voluntary suffering in sport could provide a context

    conducive to spiritual growth. Rather than look at physical engagement in sport and

    spiritual formation as unrelated domains of pursuit, we will map the contours where the

    two converge and even stimulate one another. We will analyze courage as a unique

    quality fit for cultivation in suffering, and positions it as an integral part of living out

    faith, hope and love. This study seeks to address the rigidity that is prevalent in the way

    Christians think of spirituality and deepen the conversation as it relates to formative

    frameworks in athletics.

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    Imagined communities of fandom: sport, spectatorship, meaning and alienation in late capitalism
    (Sport in Society, 2020-01-01) Kalman-Lamb, N
    © 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article accounts for the allure of sports spectatorship in late capitalism by theorizing spectatorial communities as imagined communities. Building on the work of Benedict Anderson and others, and drawing on discourse around fandom in popular culture and the media, it argues that imagined communities of fandom function as sites of meaning and community within the alienating and individualist context of late capitalism. These communities are invented and continuously rehearsed through fetish spectacle and ritualistic practice and produce Manichean understandings of social relations that can lead to marginalization and violence.
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    Listening to the literature: a case for centering writing in critical sociology of sport pedagogy
    (Sport, Education and Society, 2019-07-23) Kalman-Lamb, N