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

Other author Magdalinski, Tara.
Other author Chandler, Timothy John Lindsay.
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Descriptionix, 204 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Sports--Religious aspects. --Cross-cultural studies.

Contents 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
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2002068303
ISBN0415259606 (alk. paper)
ISBN0415259614 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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