Michael C. Braswell is a professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at East Tennessee State University.
Preface
ix
Foreword
xviii
Joseph L. Price
Sports and Religion: Peanut Butter and Jelly or Oil and Water?
1
(15)
What's in a Name? Working Definitions of Sports and Religion
16
(12)
The Sacred and the Holy: Distinguishing the Indefinable
28
(28)
Wisdom and Strength: Two Faces of the Holy
56
(22)
The Religion of Sports and the Media: Marshall McLuhan among the Apologists
78
(25)
The Cross in the Coliseum: Sacred Ground and Battle Ground
103
(21)
Religion, Sports, and War: The Conflicted History of the Knight and the Shepherd
124
(29)
The Religion of Sports and That Old-time Religion: In the Steps of Mircea Eliade
153
(26)
Varieties of Mystical Experiences: Old and New
179
(33)
The Holy and the ``Flow'': Ultimacy Versus Intimacy
212
(27)
Ethics, Values, and Excellence: Testing the Spirits
239
(34)
The Statue of Zeus and Creation of Adam Athletic Art as Sacred and Holy
273
(28)
Humor and the Eternal Triangle: Mind, Sports, and Religion
301
(36)
The High Seriousness of the Religion of Sports: A Return to Polytheism?
337
(30)
Apotheosis Versus Atonement
367
(20)
Epilogue
387
(2)
Appendix 1: Religious Dichotomies
389
(3)
Appendix 2: Textual Notes on Comparative Theology
392
(3)
Index
395
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