RELIGST 2EE3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Fnb Stadium
5 Oct 2017
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Why do we love watching sport so much? it lifts our loneliness. we feel that we are participating. Sport is the only form of ritual that works on a long scale. A church in africa brought a legal case and claimed that it used a similar horn in ceremonies for the holy spirit (the same horn they used in world cup 2010) Football has its prayers, its curses, its sacred clothes, its deities and rituals, and that it needs a. For football, the shrine, that would be compared to jerusalem or mecca, moves around every few sacred center years. Following georges bataille, argues that 2010 world cup can best be understood as a form of. He makes this argument in a chapter in his book. Expenditure = nonproductive expenditure evident in sacrifice, destruction of resources. Chidester argues the world cup is an example of ritualized expenditure, which is hard to.
