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

Contributor(s): Magdalinski, Tara | Chandler, Timothy John Lindsay
Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002Description: ix, 204 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415259614 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0415259606 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Sports -- Religious aspects -- Cross-cultural studies | Sports -- Sociological aspectsDDC classification: 796/.01 LOC classification: GV706.42 | .W58 2002Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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