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Skateboarding, Religion, and Lifestyle Sports,and popular culture, he adopts a polythetic perspective built from Geertz’s (.. New York: Basic Books, 1973) definition of religion. This concept is divided into three focuses—observation, performance, and organisation—which work as a framework for the themes addressed in the remainder of the text.

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Conclusion,ateboarding can be observed as religious, is sometimes performed in religious ways, and occasionally becomes organised in religious forms. O’Connor argues that skateboarding is increasingly religious because of its rising status as a mainstream and institutionalised sport. Religion, it is argued, ha

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Pilgrimage Spots on the importance of skateboard media, he articulates that locations reproduced in magazines and videos have become sites of pilgrimage for skateboarders. Participant testimonies attest to the emotional significance certain sites hold, and their draw as sites of homage. O’Connor further highlights

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Ritualised Playxfold schema or ritual process. Rites of passage, annual events, gift exchange, rites of affliction, festivals, and political rituals are all explored through skateboarding practices. These themes are pursued with a further ritual element, that of play. Through play it is argued that skateboarding c

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A Vehicle for FaithConnor addresses the way in which Christianity has sought to integrate and at times appropriate elements of popular culture. Integral in this process are a large number of Christian skateboarders concerned about the dark culture of skateboarding that recycles satanic imagery and promotes anti-Christ