Conference paper

Ritualization in sport

Ivica Žižić orcid.org/0000-0002-8307-7403 ; Sveučilište u Splitu, Katolički bogoslovni fakultet

Abstract

The presence of rituals in sports is a widely known phenomenon. Ritual samples describe both the playful core of sport and its events. Also, sport is often compared with religion, especially with its ceremonial style, formalized manner of behaviour and feast tension. Sport and religion are very close, not only by their formal similarity, but also exactly by the ritual function. Drawing on the common cultural and anthropological basis of so different but comparable phenomena of religion and sport, the lecture will try, on the basis of anthropological analysis, to highlight the three segments: ludic shaping (expressive function), sport as a ritual system (transformative function) and sport as a ritualized emotion (aesthetic function). Finally, the lecture is going to answer the question: Does sport provide substitute rites for today’s society and doesn’t sport offer itself, by its ritual structure, vigour and emotion, as a “post-modern religion”?

Keywords

sport; religion; liturgy; ritual

Hrčak ID:

206878

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/206878

Publication date:

1.10.2018.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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