| Popis: |
We frequently speak of sport as a religion and that sporting loyalties are religious. This chapter asks what exactly this means and suggests that it partly depends on how we define religion. The chapter argues that the definitions of religion and sport as religion overlap—something that common sense would support. The chapter attempts to define more closely sport as religion by looking at those sporting disasters which excited an apparently ‘religious’ response—two In Britain, one in Italy, one in Germany, and one in Australia—and compare them with similar events which did not seem to evoke a similar response. It offers explanations for this and what they tell us about sport as religion and about sporting emotions. It also argues that religion in sport is a product of sporting culture, not sport as such. |
