Original scientific paper
Sport and christian values in croatian society at the beginning of 20th century
Saša Ceraj
orcid.org/0000-0002-2559-4429
; Croatian Olympic Committee, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The article presents forms and ways of promoting the Christian values that Hrvatski Orlovski Savez (Croatian Aquiline Alliance) built into its postulates and promoted by its programme activities, in accordance with the thoughts of Ivan Merz. With his idea of “spiritualizing” the man and creating a society and sport based on Christian values, Merz opposed, in an original manner, the powerful penetration of liberalism in 1920s, particularly in the sphere of public life. Merz sees the problem in one-sided perception of sport as a means of creating the cult of body, which jeopardizes human moral and ethical values. He places emphasis on the interrelationship between body and soul and introduces physical exercise in order of asceticism, viewing it as a formative element in the process of creating Christian perfection. In this way, as a result of physical exercise and sport as the most popular form and backbone of Croatian Aquilinty, the implementation of Christian value in that-time Croatian society was successfully realized.
Keywords
Ivan Merz; Aquility; Hrvatski Orlovski Savez; Christian values; sport
Hrčak ID:
206883
URI
Publication date:
1.10.2018.
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