John Bentley White
Biographic Data
| ID | 9212518 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Bentley White |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Bentley |
| FAMILY NAME | White |
| SIGNATURE | WHITE J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maxwell Institute, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3622-1214 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Developing Interfaith Friendships Through Shared Purpose
As religious diversity increases, identifying contexts that foster positive relationships across faith traditions has become increasingly important. Many interfaith initiatives emphasize dialogue and religious literacy, yet these largely cognitive approaches can inadvertently foreground the doctrinal differences they hope to bridge. Drawing on perspectives of lived religion, embodied spirituality, and intergroup contact theory, we argue that spor…
Love, Hope, and Connection in Sport
Sport is widely believed to build character, yet research indicates that such development is possible, but not automatic. This mixed-methods study examined how a faith and character intervention shaped the embodied, lived experience of young Christian athletes. Thirty-five adolescent athletes and collegiate mentors, nearly all Christian, took part in an intentionally designed intervention, whose curriculum sought to cultivate five virtues: faith,…
The Enduring Problem of Dualism
Arguments on how religion interfaces with sports are not new, and in particular, sports activity itself has been characterized as religion, namely, “cultural,” “natural,” “civil,” and “folk.” In this article, I want to consider a recent proposal by Shirl Hoffman in Good Game: Christianity and the Culture of Sports. Hoffman attempts to reimagine how the Christian religion and sports should relate (on account of the problems of modern muscular Chri…
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The Enduring Problem of Dualism
Arguments on how religion interfaces with sports are not new, and in particular, sports activity itself has been characterized as religion, namely, “cultural,” “natural,” “civil,” and “folk.” In this article, I want to consider a recent proposal by Shirl Hoffman in Good Game: Christianity and the Culture of Sports. Hoffman attempts to reimagine how the Christian religion and sports should relate (on account of the problems of modern muscular Chri…
Developing Interfaith Friendships Through Shared Purpose
As religious diversity increases, identifying contexts that foster positive relationships across faith traditions has become increasingly important. Many interfaith initiatives emphasize dialogue and religious literacy, yet these largely cognitive approaches can inadvertently foreground the doctrinal differences they hope to bridge. Drawing on perspectives of lived religion, embodied spirituality, and intergroup contact theory, we argue that spor…
Love, Hope, and Connection in Sport
Sport is widely believed to build character, yet research indicates that such development is possible, but not automatic. This mixed-methods study examined how a faith and character intervention shaped the embodied, lived experience of young Christian athletes. Thirty-five adolescent athletes and collegiate mentors, nearly all Christian, took part in an intentionally designed intervention, whose curriculum sought to cultivate five virtues: faith,…
Doping in Sports (2 works) · Affect (linguistics) (1 work) · Athletes (1 work) · Character (mathematics) (1 work) · Christianity (1 work) · Contact hypothesis (1 work) · Contemporary Christian Leadership and Education (1 work) · Diverse Philosophical and Cultural Studies (1 work) · Dualism (1 work) · Embodied cognition (1 work)