Holy Acceptable Violence?: Violence in Hockey and Christian Atonement Theories
Hockey and Christianity are described as ways of being spiritual for followers and participants. This essay is written from a feminist ethical perspective and examines violence characterizing professional Canadian hockey including: economic justice, and commodification and sexualization of athletes;...
| Published in: | Journal of religion and popular culture |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Saskatchewan
[2009]
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Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Summary: | Hockey and Christianity are described as ways of being spiritual for followers and participants. This essay is written from a feminist ethical perspective and examines violence characterizing professional Canadian hockey including: economic justice, and commodification and sexualization of athletes; self-sacrifice and heroism; on-ice bodily harms; sexual abuse; and a dualistic mentality that alienates and negates the other. Parallels between this violence and classical Christian atonement theories are drawn, with attention to consequences. The normativity of violence both in classical Christian atonement theories and in professional Canadian hockey is argued and critiqued. L'hockey et le christianitsme sont souvent considerer des activité spirituels pour leur disciples et participants. Cet essai, écrit d'une perspective morale féministe, examine plusieur type de violence qui caractérise l'hockey professionnel au Canada, incluent la justice économique, commodification et sexualization des athletes, dévouement et héroisme, dommages physiques au cours des jeux, l'abus sexuel, et une mentalité dualistique qui rend les autre joueurs non-humaines. Des parallèles entre ces type de violence et des théories chrétiennes classiques d'expiation sont établis, avec attention aux conséquences. Le normalité de la violence des théories chrétiennes classiques d'expiation et dans l'hockey professionnel au Canada est discuté et critiquer. |
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| ISSN: | 1703-289X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.21.suppl_1.003 |