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,...

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.