Jeffrey Scholes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3891059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey Scholes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Scholes |
| SIGNATURE | SCHOLES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Colorado Springs |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-9974-0280 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Religion and Sport in North America
We Will Not Shut Up and Dribble
On 15 February 2018, Fox News host Laura Ingraham ended her broadcast by responding to sharply critical comments that basketball stars LeBron James and Kevin Durant made about President Trump on the issue of race. Ingraham demanded that they "shut up and dribble," to which James responded by creating a Twitter hashtag, #wewillnotshutupanddribble that adorned t-shirts worn during his next pregame warmup. In this essay, I contend that religion and …
Christianity Race and Sport
"Dabo Swinney, Universal Whiteness, and a "Sin Problem
Clemson University head football coach Dabo Swinney was asked to respond to Colin Kaepernick's protest of police killings of unarmed black men and women by kneeling for the national anthem. Swinney's response was surprisingly comprehensive and illuminating into his stance on race, religion, and sport. He crystallizes his overall interpretation of societal problems with the statement, "It's so easy to say we have a race problem, but we got a sin p…
Pray the White Way
Athletes, particularly players in the National Football League, have repeatedly invoked God in order to glorify, praise, or even credit the divine with success on the field. This essay examines the ways in which different types of religious language used to bring God onto the gridiron are received and evaluated along racial lines. I seek to show that speech by athletes, in particular black football players, that communicates a God who is partisan…
Reaching the kids
This article looks at how the National Football League (NFL) uses television and new media technologies to engage in a pedagogical project of teaching the game and its culture to children so that they can produce themselves as fans valuable to the NFL. The NFL takes these steps because becoming a fan of any sport is not a passive process; it requires significant, focused labor to learn the requisite knowledge and perform an identity tied to the c…
Sports in Post-secular America
Whether found in curses believed to plague certain baseball teams or in religious-like devotion that fans express towards their team, the relationship between religion and sports is alive and well in the United States. This relationship is frequently assumed to be one of a turf war that pits religion and sports against each other. Such a stance is often predicated on the idea that sports and religious discourses occupy separate realms, yet it is …
Vocation
Since Martin Luther, the Protestant concept of vocation has been tied to daily work. Yet, Max Weber famously proclaimed that while vocations used to endow work with divine import, this is no longer the case; the work ethic is actually driven by secular motives. However, if popular self-help literature is any indication, the need for work to tap transcendent meaning has not abated. 'Vocation language' still acts as the primary means for communicat…
Christianity Race and Sport
Reaching the kids
This article looks at how the National Football League (NFL) uses television and new media technologies to engage in a pedagogical project of teaching the game and its culture to children so that they can produce themselves as fans valuable to the NFL. The NFL takes these steps because becoming a fan of any sport is not a passive process; it requires significant, focused labor to learn the requisite knowledge and perform an identity tied to the c…
Vocation
Since Martin Luther, the Protestant concept of vocation has been tied to daily work. Yet, Max Weber famously proclaimed that while vocations used to endow work with divine import, this is no longer the case; the work ethic is actually driven by secular motives. However, if popular self-help literature is any indication, the need for work to tap transcendent meaning has not abated. 'Vocation language' still acts as the primary means for communicat…
Sports in Post-secular America
Whether found in curses believed to plague certain baseball teams or in religious-like devotion that fans express towards their team, the relationship between religion and sports is alive and well in the United States. This relationship is frequently assumed to be one of a turf war that pits religion and sports against each other. Such a stance is often predicated on the idea that sports and religious discourses occupy separate realms, yet it is …
Reaching the kids
This article looks at how the National Football League (NFL) uses television and new media technologies to engage in a pedagogical project of teaching the game and its culture to children so that they can produce themselves as fans valuable to the NFL. The NFL takes these steps because becoming a fan of any sport is not a passive process; it requires significant, focused labor to learn the requisite knowledge and perform an identity tied to the c…
Pray the White Way
Athletes, particularly players in the National Football League, have repeatedly invoked God in order to glorify, praise, or even credit the divine with success on the field. This essay examines the ways in which different types of religious language used to bring God onto the gridiron are received and evaluated along racial lines. I seek to show that speech by athletes, in particular black football players, that communicates a God who is partisan…
"Dabo Swinney, Universal Whiteness, and a "Sin Problem
Clemson University head football coach Dabo Swinney was asked to respond to Colin Kaepernick's protest of police killings of unarmed black men and women by kneeling for the national anthem. Swinney's response was surprisingly comprehensive and illuminating into his stance on race, religion, and sport. He crystallizes his overall interpretation of societal problems with the statement, "It's so easy to say we have a race problem, but we got a sin p…
Christianity Race and Sport
Religion and Sport in North America
We Will Not Shut Up and Dribble
On 15 February 2018, Fox News host Laura Ingraham ended her broadcast by responding to sharply critical comments that basketball stars LeBron James and Kevin Durant made about President Trump on the issue of race. Ingraham demanded that they "shut up and dribble," to which James responded by creating a Twitter hashtag, #wewillnotshutupanddribble that adorned t-shirts worn during his next pregame warmup. In this essay, I contend that religion and …
Sociology (6 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Football (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works)