With God on their Side : : Sport in the Service of Religion / / edited by Timothy Chandler, Tara Magdalinski.

• TeilnehmendeR: Magdalinski, Tara,; Chandler, Timothy,
• Place / Publishing House: London ; New York : : Taylor & Francis,, 2002.
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 204 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

"'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 of cutting-edge contemporary historical case-studies, wide-ranging in their social and religious contexts. It presents important new work on the following fascinating topics: sport and Catholicism in Northern Ireland; Shinto and sumo in Japan; women, sport and the American Jewish identity; religion, race and rugby in South Africa; sport and Islam in France and North Africa; sport and Christian fundamentalism in the US; Muhammad Ali and the Nation of Islam. With God on their Side is vital reading for all students of the history, sociology and culture of sport. It also presents important new research material that will be of interest to religious studies students, historians and anthropologists".

Table of Contents

With God on their side: an introduction / |r Tara Magdalinski, Timothy J.L. Chandler -- |t Catholics and sport in Northern Ireland: exclusiveness or inclusiveness? / |r Mike Cronin -- |t Stadium politics: sport, Islam and Amazigh consciousness in France and North Africa / |r Paul A. Silverstein -- |t 'We are red, white and blue, we are Catholic, why aren't you?: religion and soccer subculture symbolism / |r John Hughson -- |t Women, sport and American Jewish identity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / |r Linda J. Borish -- |t Manly Catholicism: making men in Catholic public schools, 1945-80 / |r Timothy J.L. Chandler -- |t Religion, race and rugby in 'coloured' Cape Town / |r John Nauright, Tara Magdalinski -- |t Appeasing the Gods: Shinto, sumo and 'true' Japanese spirit / |r Richard Light, Louise Kinnaird -- |t What makes a man?: religion, sport and negotiating masculine identity in the Promise Keepers / |r George D. Randels Jr., Becky Beal -- |t Muhammad Speaks and Muhammad Ali: intersections of the Nation of Islam and sport in the 1960s / |r Maureen Smith -- |t Epilogue / |r Tara Magdalinski, Timothy J.L. Chandler.