종교와 대중문화의 관계 연구 -종교로서의 스포츠 이론과 실제- = A Study on Relationship between Religion and Popular Culture -An Approach to Theory and Practice of Sport as Religion-

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Through an analysis on theories and practice of sports, this paper attempts to reconsider `popular culture as religion.` Whereas the relations between religion and popular culture are generally formed by their mutual exchanges, sports have been regarded as a kind of religion because of peculiarities they share. Thus it is asserted that there are a number of correspondencies of sport with religion. Stadiums are identified with houses of worship, games with a final millennial battle, and superstar athletes with gods and saints. This assertion, however, has some problems. It is because that most of them are invalid, even though some of those corresponding parallels are seen. The most pivotal problems with the assertion are concerned with the definition of religion, and with comparative parallelomania. In addition, there are some contradictions in that the way to see `sport as religion` is polytheistic, but biblical accounts on games are monotheistic, even exclusive and fundamentalist. It is true that sports have religious elements, such as belief, ritual, sacrifice, and transcendence, and that they help individuals to recover their self-identity and to gain sense of belonging. Nonetheless, sports cannot tell us anything about our soul and ultimate being, that belong to only the religions. In conclusion, studies on the relation between religion and sport need a comprehensive stance from which we can understand both similarities and differences between the sports and the religions, mitigate religious conflicts and antagonisms, and make sports contribute to the social and cultual changes for building one earth community, in which all nations and peoples peacefully live together.

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