Annie Blazer
Biographic Data
| ID | 364007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annie Blazer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annie |
| FAMILY NAME | Blazer |
| SIGNATURE | BLAZER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | William & Mary |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7332-8400 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Religion and Sport in Japan
Gender Policing in Girls' and Women's Sports
This paper will show that sporting institutions that police the boundaries of women's sports do so to keep sportswomen constrained in ways that men's sports and male athletes are not. This paper explores three methods that sporting establishments have used to police and constrain women's sports and sportswomen: the exclusion of women and the creation of different rules for men's and women's sports, the policing of international sporting administr…
American Prosperity Gospel and Athletic Narratives of Success
When athletes give interviews about their success, they tend to iterate on themes of self-assuredness, dedication to a goal, positive thinking, and divine blessing. By examining the history of prosperity theology in the U.S., we can see one possible source of this rhetoric. Prosperity theology teaches believers that God wants them to be healthy and wealthy and that the means to achieve health and wealth are at a believer's fingertips. All one mus…
Playing for God: Evangelical Women and the Unintended Consequences of Sports Ministry
When Rituals Fail: Confessions of Doping in Elite Sports
In the nineteenth century, Protestant reformers declared: Sport builds character. They described sport as ethically valuable and as an experiential tool to teach values and cooperation. However, sports have long raised ethical challenges when it comes to fairness in competition. This article examines controversies over performance enhancing drugs and pays attention to the rituals of confession at play for those caught doping. Nineteenth-century r…
An Invitation to Suffer: Evangelicals and Sports Ministry in the U.S
When American evangelicals sought to use the tools of sport for religious outreach in the mid-twentieth century, they began to wonder if the essential features of sport-competition and hierarchy-conflicted with their approach to salvation. For most evangelical Christians, salvation is an option for every human and each person must make an individual decision to accept or reject the salvific power of Jesus Christ. This is a worldview that relies h…
Sports and Christianity: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Religion and Sports in America
This article provides an overview of major scholarly contributions to the field of religion and sport. The article begins with scholarship that addresses the question: is sport a religion? Recognizing that Christianity and sports have a particularly strong relationship within the United States, the article turns to scholarship on muscular Christianity, theological and anthropological critiques of sports ministry, and how the relationship between …
Religion and Sports in America
This article provides an overview of major scholarly contributions to the field of religion and sport. The article begins with scholarship that addresses the question: is sport a religion? Recognizing that Christianity and sports have a particularly strong relationship within the United States, the article turns to scholarship on muscular Christianity, theological and anthropological critiques of sports ministry, and how the relationship between …
Religion and Sports in America
This article provides an overview of major scholarly contributions to the field of religion and sport. The article begins with scholarship that addresses the question: is sport a religion? Recognizing that Christianity and sports have a particularly strong relationship within the United States, the article turns to scholarship on muscular Christianity, theological and anthropological critiques of sports ministry, and how the relationship between …
Sports and Christianity: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
An Invitation to Suffer: Evangelicals and Sports Ministry in the U.S
When American evangelicals sought to use the tools of sport for religious outreach in the mid-twentieth century, they began to wonder if the essential features of sport-competition and hierarchy-conflicted with their approach to salvation. For most evangelical Christians, salvation is an option for every human and each person must make an individual decision to accept or reject the salvific power of Jesus Christ. This is a worldview that relies h…
Playing for God: Evangelical Women and the Unintended Consequences of Sports Ministry
When Rituals Fail: Confessions of Doping in Elite Sports
In the nineteenth century, Protestant reformers declared: Sport builds character. They described sport as ethically valuable and as an experiential tool to teach values and cooperation. However, sports have long raised ethical challenges when it comes to fairness in competition. This article examines controversies over performance enhancing drugs and pays attention to the rituals of confession at play for those caught doping. Nineteenth-century r…
American Prosperity Gospel and Athletic Narratives of Success
When athletes give interviews about their success, they tend to iterate on themes of self-assuredness, dedication to a goal, positive thinking, and divine blessing. By examining the history of prosperity theology in the U.S., we can see one possible source of this rhetoric. Prosperity theology teaches believers that God wants them to be healthy and wealthy and that the means to achieve health and wealth are at a believer's fingertips. All one mus…
Gender Policing in Girls' and Women's Sports
This paper will show that sporting institutions that police the boundaries of women's sports do so to keep sportswomen constrained in ways that men's sports and male athletes are not. This paper explores three methods that sporting establishments have used to police and constrain women's sports and sportswomen: the exclusion of women and the creation of different rules for men's and women's sports, the policing of international sporting administr…
Religion and Sport in Japan
Doping in Sports (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (3 works) · Art (2 works)