Sport and Religion

Code:

656

Acronym:

656

Instance: 2023/2024 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Sports Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LCD	57	First Degree in Sports Sciences (2011/2012)	2	-	3	-
			3

Teaching language

Portuguese
Obs.: Desporto e Religião

Objectives

1. To explore axiological elements of sport's reality inherited by sacred and religious contexts;
2. To deeply understand tensions and conflicts, as well affinities and proximities, between homo religiosus and homo sportivus
3. To consider sport from a proposed common ethics between both: the ethics of waiting, of wandering, of pilgrimage
4. To find in both sport and religion possibile paths of dialogue and peace, through a universal language of the sacred and the profane

Learning outcomes and competences

1. Be able to identify, suspect and question the origins and the meanings of important aspects of sport's axiology that invoque religious universe

2. Be able to research, collect and dialogue with recent and available academic literature about sport and religion

3. Acquire knowledge about the relationship between sport and religion, and competences to think, analyse and discuss them both in educational, academic and socio-cultural contexts

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Sacred values in sport: origin and contemporary manifestations

1.1. Justice
1.2. Waiting and sacrifice
1.3. Human limits and the desire of transcendence: the search for perfection
1.3 Dialogue and peace

2. Sport and religions: approaches and tensions

2.1. Sport and christianism
2.2. Sport and judaism
2.3. Sport and Islam
2.4. Sport and buddhism

3. Sport and religion: ways to dialogue and to peace

3.1. Diversity as a condition and ignition to dialogue
3.2. Freedom, sport and religion
3.3. Sport as a tool for dialogue and peace

References to search:

Desporto e diversidade religiosa: caminhos para a Paz. Org. JM Constantino. Lisboa: Comité Olímpico de Portugal

Garcia RP, Costa LA (2019). Peregrinação: do sofrimento à alegria da fé. Brotéria, 188 (5/6): 746-763

Garcia RP, Costa LA (2021). Desporto: hipótese de uma ética universal. Revista de Direito do Desporto (nº 8 – maio/agosto). A ser publicado

Grano D (2017). The eternal present of sport: rethinking sport and religion. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press

Hervás RG, Albelda EF, Delgado AP (2022). Competiendo para los dioses: los rituales agonísticos en el mundo antiguo. Sevilha: Editorial Universidad de Sevilla

Hoffman SJ (2010). Good game: Christianity and the culture of sports. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press

Kretchmar S (2012). Hard-Won sporting achievements and spiritual humility: are they compatible?  In Watson NJ, Parker A (Eds.), Sports and Christianity: historical and contemporary perspectives (pp. 269 - 206). Abingdon: Routledge

Møller V (2017). Sport, religion and charisma. Sport, ethics and philosophy, vol. 11, n.1, pp. 52-62

Parry J, Robinson S, Watson N, Nesti M. (2007). Sport and spirituality. An introduction. Abingdon: Routledge

Pereira A, Garcia RP (2021). Ética e desporto: desafios atuais e futuros. Lisboa: PNED (no prelo)

Mandatory literature

Constantino, JM; Desporto e diversidade religiosa: caminhos para a Paz. , Comite Olímpico de Portugal, 2021
Garcia RP, Costa LA ; Peregrinação: do sofrimento à alegria da fé. , Brotéria, 2019. ISBN: 0870-7618
Garcia RP, Costa LA ; Desporto: hipótese de uma ética universal, Revista de Direito do Desporto, 2021. ISBN: 2184-4186
Grano D; The eternal present of sport: rethinking sport and religion., Temple University Press, 2017. ISBN: 9781439912812
Hoffman SJ; Good game: Christianity and the culture of sports. , Baylor University Press, 2010. ISBN: 1-932792-10-4
Kretchmar S; Hard-Won sporting achievements and spiritual humility: are they compatible? , Watson NJ, Parker A (Eds.), Sports and Christianity: historical and contemporary perspectives (pp. 269 - 206). Routledge, 2012. ISBN: 9780203084625
Møller V; Sport, religion and charisma. , Sport, ethics and philosophy, vol. 11, n.1, pp. 52-62, 2017
Parry J, Robinson S, Watson N, Nesti M. ; Sport and spirituality. An introduction. , Routledge, 2007. ISBN: 9780415404839
Pereira A, Garcia RP ; Ética e desporto: desafios atuais e futuros., PNED, 2021

Teaching methods and learning activities

Exposition of the main topics by the professor, in a dialogued way, by interacting with students and promoting their participation; Study and discussion of texts regarding the course topics; Participation of invited speakers who, by their experience, can contribute to a deep intersubjective thinking with students about the topics of the course.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	20,00
Trabalho escrito	30,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	20,00
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	30,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	6,00
Estudo autónomo	40,00
Frequência das aulas	15,00
Trabalho escrito	20,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

The evaluation of the level of knowledge and skills of the students is conducted in accordance with existing legal provisions at the University of Porto and the Assessment Standards issued by the Pedagogical Faculty of Sport.
To be approved in Sport and Religion students must have positive frequency in classes (75% attendance) and a minimum grade of 9.5 in the proposed works.

Calculation formula of final grade

100% of the score is regarded to the score of the proposed works at classes. The consideration of this score is only valid when the student attended to 75% of classes at least.