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Mixed Martial Arts and Christianity: ‘Where Feet, Fist and Faith Collide’
Study Details
- Authors
- N.J. Watson, B. Bolt
- Published
- 01/05/2015
- Citation
- Watson, N.J. and Bolt, B. 2015. Mixed-martial arts and Christianity: Where feet, fist and faith collide. The Conversation, 5 January, see: http://theconversation.com/mixed-martial-arts-and-christianity-where-feet-fist-and-faith-collide-34836
“Can you love your neighbor as yourself, and at the same time knee him in the face as hard as you can?” American Christian Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) champion Scott “Bam Bam” Sullivan wonders in an interview with The Times (London). Today over 700 evangelical US churches now integrate MMA (also known as cage-fighting) into their ministry programs. The phenomenon has even been featured in a recent documentary film, 2014’s Fight Church.