The Cult of CrossFit: Christianity and the American Fitness Phenomenon

Join us to celebrate the publication of Professor of Anthropology Katie Rose Hejtmanek’s The Cult of CrossFit. She will be joined in conversation by Lauren Mancia, professor of history at Brooklyn College and professor of medieval studies at the CUNY Graduate Center.

We all have that one friend who’s a little too into CrossFit. They talk about it all the time, and the way they describe it, you’d think they were describing a cult. Hejtmanek’s research spans the United States and six continents to understand what makes certain people feel so devoted to CrossFit. Despite presenting itself as a secular space, Hejtmanek argues that CrossFit is deeply intertwined with American Christian values. She makes the case that the Christianity that shapes CrossFit is the same kind of Christianity that shapes much of America, usually in ways we do not even notice.

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