This book provides a systematic and interdisciplinary analysis of the published literature and
practical initiatives on the sports-Christianity interface from both Protestant and Catholic …

The story of British football's journey from public school diversion to mass media
entertainment is a remarkable one. The Association Game traces British football from the …

The aim of this paper is to identify the existence of tribal behaviour in football fans and the
impact of this tribalism on the consumption of brands associated with the club. The intention …

Football violence has been a global problem for decades. A new way to approach the
phenomenon comes from the theory of identity fusion, an extreme form of social bonding …

Title first published in 2003. Alternative religions attract great public, academic and
government interest in our apparently post-Christian society. Yet how did all the'alternatives' …

Two focus group meetings with “surfers” and “fans” respectively, in April 2006, were
enriched by computerised projective techniques and program‐assisted design (PAD) …

This book offers a comprehensive account of the nature and expression of contemporary
forms of religion in Western societies. Drawing both on recent original work and classical …

Vielfach wird heute die Meinung vertreten, Religion gehöre aufgrund der sog.
Säkularisierung zu den» Verlierern «gesellschaftlicher Modernisierung. Demgegenüber …

Using data collected from 538 Iranian tourists undertaking the religious pilgrimage of Umrah
(ie voluntary travel to the holy city of Mecca at any time throughout the year), this study …

According to Noel Coward,'work is more fun than fun', a judgment shared by most previous
generations of historians who concentrated on the material basics of economic and social …