From: ian glendinning (psybertron@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Nov 23 2005 - 09:00:24 GMT
Rebecca,
With acknowledgements to Bill Shankly, can I say that unlike religion
or sex, sport is not really a matter of life or death, ...
It's much more important than that.
Come on U R's, top of the Campionship last night.
I can personally confirm sports fanaticism is about belonging. :-)
Ian
On 11/21/05, Rebecca Temmer <ratemmer.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> David:
>
> RS 101: Religion and Popular Culture. It's a pretty basic theory class but
> the prof is wicked. His field of specialty is Religion and Sport
> (specifically NASCAR). He uses Bataille's conception of the erotic - of
> belonging and the search for continuity - to look at social spectacle such
> as cinema and sport.
>
> Rebecca
>
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