Ugo Corte, Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers

Authors

  • Todd LeVasseur Yale National University, Singapore College and College of Charleston

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.26158

Keywords:

book review

Abstract

Ugo Corte, Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2022), 270 pp., $30 (pbk), ISBN: 9780226820453.

Author Biography

  • Todd LeVasseur, Yale National University, Singapore College and College of Charleston

    Todd LeVasseur, Yale National University Singapore College and College of Charleston.

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LeVasseur, Todd. 2021. Climate Change, Religion, and Our Bodily Future (New York: Rowman & Littlefield).

Lyng, Stephen. 1990. ‘Edgework: A Social Psychological Analysis of Voluntary Risk-taking’, American Journal of Sociology 95.4:851–86.

Taylor, Bron. 2007. ‘Surfing into Spirituality and a New, Aquatic Nature Religion’, Journal of the American Academy of Religion 75.5: 923–951.

________. 2009. Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future (Berkeley: University of California Press).

Published

2023-10-10

How to Cite

LeVasseur, T. (2023). Ugo Corte, Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.26158