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Record Nr.

UNINA9910348221203321

Autore

Chandler Timothy

Titolo

With God on their side : sport in the service of religion / / edited by Tara Magdalinski and Timothy J.L. Chandler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2002

ISBN

9780415862929

0415862922

9781134511662

1134511663

9781595580313

159558031X

9781134511679

1134511671

9781280111266

1280111267

9780203995341

0203995341

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Classificazione

REL000000SPO000000SPO019000

Altri autori (Persone)

MagdalinskiTara

ChandlerTimothy John Lindsay

Disciplina

796/.01

Soggetti

Sports - Religious aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

With God on their side: an introduction / Tara Magdalinski, Timothy J.L. Chandler -- Catholics and sport in Northern Ireland: exclusiveness or inclusiveness? / Mike Cronin -- Stadium politics: sport, Islam and Amazigh consciousness in France and North Africa / Paul A. Silverstein -- 'We are red, white and blue, we are Catholic, why aren't you?: religion and soccer subculture symbolism / John Hughson -- Women, sport and American Jewish identity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Linda J. Borish -- Manly Catholicism: making men in Catholic public schools, 1945-80 / Timothy J.L. Chandler -- Religion, race and rugby in 'coloured' Cape Town / John Nauright, Tara



Magdalinski -- Appeasing the Gods: Shinto, sumo and 'true' Japanese spirit / Richard Light, Louise Kinnaird -- What makes a man?: religion, sport and negotiating masculine identity in the Promise Keepers / George D. Randels Jr., Becky Beal -- Muhammad Speaks and Muhammad Ali: intersections of the Nation of Islam and sport in the 1960s / Maureen Smith -- Epilogue / Tara Magdalinski, Timothy J.L. Chandler.

Sommario/riassunto

'Sport' and 'religion' are cultural institutions with a global reach. Each is characterised by ritualised performance and by the ecstatic devotion of its followers, whether in the sports arena or the cathedral of worship. This fascinating collection is the first to examine, in detail, the relationship between these two cultural institutions from an international, religiously pluralistic perspective. It illuminates the role of sport and religion in the social formation of collective groups, and explores how sport might operate in the service of a religious community.The book offers a series