主办单位:成都体育学院
ISSN 1001-9154 CN 51-1097/G8

Journal of Chengdu Sport University ›› 2021, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (4): 61-65.doi: 10.15942/j.jcsu.2021.04.010

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Mirror Image of the Changes in the Relationship between Sports Movements and Religious Celebrations

YAN Jing   

  1. Sports Health Technology College, Jilin Sport University, Changchun Jilin 130022
  • Received:2020-06-04 Revised:2021-04-06 Online:2021-07-15 Published:2021-07-26

Abstract: Using the methods of literature, historical analysis, this present paper investigates the changes in the relationship between sports movements and religious celebrations from the four dimensions of the contact, evolution, integration, and transformation of sports movements in religious celebrations. Research suggests that sports movements and religious celebrations have successively experienced the relationship process of dependence and integration, interaction and development, evolution and transformation. In the course of changes in religious celebrations in the East and the West, sports movements derive their own ritual movements, which are used to convey their own concepts and values, and to construct their own symbol system to show the functions and values that meet the needs of social mass sports and cultural life; at the same time, under the impact of modernization and globalization, sports movements in religious celebrations, which takes religious consciousness as its core spirit, begin to show a clear secularization tendency under the dual effects of external pressure and internal tension in order to adapt to changes in the environment and meet the needs of self-survival.

Key words: sports, religion, sports, sports games, ancient Olympics, religious celebrations

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