Sport and religion / Shirl J. Hoffman, editor.

pt. 1. Sport as religion. The Super Bowl as religious festival / Joseph L. Price
From civil religion to folk religion : the case of American sport / James A. Mathisen
The natural religion / Michael Novak
"Heavenly Father, divine goalie" : sport and religion / Charles S. Prebish
Sport is not a religion / Joan M. Chandler
pt. 2. Sport as religious experience. Is running a religious experience? / Hal Higdon
Playing / George A. Sheehan
Muscular Christianity, holy play, and spiritual exercises : confusion about Christ in sports and religion / Robert J. Higgs
Big-time spectator sports : a feminist Christian perspective / Denise Lardner Carmody
Evangelicalism and the revitalization of religious ritual in sport / Shirl J. Hoffman


pt. 3. Religion in sport. From ritual to record / Allen Guttmann
Recovering a sense of the sacred in sport / Shirl J. Hoffman
The spirit of winning : sports and the total man / Carol Flake
Pray ball / Lori Rotenberk
Are you blocking for me, Jesus? / James T. Baker
Why athletes need ritual : a study of magic among professional athletes / Mari Womack
Green cars, black cats and lady luck / Jack McCallum
pt. 4. Sport, religion, and ethics. Sport : mortality and ethics / Howard Slusher
Sport, religion and human well-being / Brian W.W. Aiken
Towards a Christian play ethic / Arthur F. Holmes
Sports and the Christian life : reflections on Pope John Paul II's theology of sports / Michael P. Kerrigan
Real men, short hair / Tony Simpson
Death in the ring : a pastoral dilemma / Carmen Leone and Dorothy Leone
Competition and God's law / Herbert W. Armstrong
Nimrod, Nephilim, and the athletae Dei / Shirl J. Hoffman.