Surfing Into Spirituality And A New, Aquatic Nature Religion By Bron Taylor

1 Surfing into Spirituality and a New, Aquatic Nature Religion by Bron Taylor In What Ways One Can Consid er Surfing to Be a Religious Activity? Surfing is a combination of sport, lifestyle and und erstand ing of beauty and power of the nature. Surfing can be called a d angerous game with the wave as it is the competition in d eftness and speed with Neptune himself; this is the struggle with water where you can d isappear in the seething d eep or fall prey to sharks or poisonous jellyfish. But can surfing be a religion? In his article Surfing into Spirituality and a New, Aquatic Nature Religion, Bron Taylor calls surfing a religious form in which a specific sensual practice constitutes its sacred center, and the corresponding experiences are constructed in a way that leads to a belief in nature as powerful, transformative, healing, and sacred. But what is religion? Taylor d oesnt provid e a clear d efinition of religion in his article. I und erstand religion as a special perception of the world , with its own rules of cond uct which a certain religions believers have to follow, and a goal for which believers