Corrigendum: Sport Karate and the Pursuit of Wellness: A Participant Observation Study of a Dojo in Scotland (Front. Sociol., (2021), 5, 10.3389/fsoc.2020.587024)

Abstract

If we take into account the increasingly intense pace of life that society adopts, the health problems that emerge are numerous, and stress is one of the leaders on the list (Tapley, 2007; Fuller and Lloyd, 2020). To deal with these problems, there appears to be a growing social consensus that the practice of physical activities, including martial arts, is an extremely pertinent option (Rios et al., 2018). Martial arts are traditionally practised as an alternative to dealing with violence, often as a form of self-defence (McCaughey, 1997; McCaughey, 1998; Hollander, 2004; Matthews and Channon, 2016) or as a way of finding spiritual and bodily harmony and serenity. In the latter case, some martial arts are often associated with meditative and spiritual practices, coming to be related to a religious basis (Brown et al., 2009; Mainland, 2010; Cushing, 2013; Contiero et al., 2018; Kumpf, 2018).