FEDE E SPORT: PROSPETTIVE COMUNI DI CONTRASTO ALL’EMERGENZA SOCIOSANITARIA DA COVID-19
Faith and Sport: common perspectives for combating the social and health emergency from Covid-19

Summary/Abstract: With the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic emergency, the interrelationships between sport and religion have taken on a specific dimension. An analysis of the impact that the socio-sanitary crisis has had on both systems allows two general considerations to be made. Firstly, in terms of social interaction, the Coronavirus epidemic has mainly affected the aggregations that characterize the sharing of rituals, which have been suspended whenever the risk of contagion required it. This circumstance enhanced the ‘domestic’ dimension of religious and sporting practices. Secondly, sport and religions, in the light of the fragilities that have emerged in this time of crisis, have shared and continue to share the prospect of social rebirth based on ethical action, inspired by the logic of justice, inclusion and respect for differences in identity. With reference to the latter, it has emerged that religious and sporting institutions, also by sharing projects, share a solidarity-based approach marked by greater mutual social responsibility, making it even more important to call for ethicality in all actions, or using sporting language, for fair play at all levels, from the personal level, which remains irreplaceable, to the structural and institutional level, and even in international relations.

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