From Sin to a Gift from God: The Changing Nature of Sport

Nils Martinius Justvik

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From Sin to a Gift from God

The Changing Nature of Sport

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Pages:: 172–181

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004397965_014

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This is a study about changing attitudes and practices related to sport in conservative, Pietist Christian milieus in Southern Norway. In the early 1950s many conservative Christians saw Christian participation in organized sport as problematic. Three barriers can be identified. There was a ban on competitions on Sundays. The second difficulty was that Christians could not be members of organizations where it was possible to find swearing, occasional use of alcohol and even dancing. The third barrier was of a more abstract nature: Sport could for some become so all-consuming that one forgot the importance of a close relation to God. Gradually a liberalization took place, so one could be an active sportsman (women were still very much on the outside of sport) provided that one witnessed about Christ for one’s fellow sportsmen, or at least acted as a moral role model. From the late 1970s onward, skepticism against sport disappeared. An interesting point in this study is that practice has changed first, followed by theological legitimations.

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Political Religion, Everyday Religion: Sociological Trends

Series: International Studies in Religion and Society, Volume: 33

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004397965

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Apr 2019

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  - Sociology of Religion
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