"The Godding Up of American Sports," Joseph Price

  Price, Joseph. "The Godding Up of American Sports," Joseph Price (pages 288-312) in Religion and Popular Culture in America Shoemaker, Terry. "Running the Prophetic Point: Basketball, Black Lives Matter and Prophetic Imagination ," The Prophetic Dimension of Sport, Springer Nature Series, 2019. Shoemaker, Terry. "The Religious Mourning of 'Saint Kobe Bryant Continues (Links to an external site.)," Religion Dispatches, February 2020. Shoemaker, Terry. "Our Need for Sports During the Pandemic is Far Deeper Than Just Entertainment, (Links to an external site.)" Religion Dispatches, May 2020 Comments from Customer Prompt Response 1 Religion, like other forms of culture, is often tied to individual likes, tastes, and preferences. These preferences can change, modify, and adjust over time. And consumers of religion often have the opportunity to create or remix their religion or spirituality (note: there are limits on religious freedom and experimentation in some nations or regions, so this isn't a universal statement). Like the film Kumare practitioners and leaders can invent, innovate, and explore the market of religious opportunities. In other words, there are options, and many people chose to explore those options. For this prompt, students will create an outline for a proposed response. The submission must follow the outline structure, use complete sentences, and provide complete citations in MLA format for all readings this week, lectures, and film Kumare. Let's begin with a basic response: Students should imagine that they are writing a research paper about religion in the cultural marketplace. There must be a unique title and thesis statement, following by topic sentences and evidence statements that include quotes from the readings included in this week's module. Do not use outside sources. This is the prompt: Religion exists in a marketplace of ideas and cultural productions. From the materials in this module make an argument regarding religion's role in the cultural marketplace. Students should be creative with the thesis. Do not merely summarize the material presented in the lectures.