International Journal of Religion and Sport is a refereed print publication analyzing the interchanges among world religions, religious practice, spirituality, and global sport. The editors of the journal invite contributions that take seriously the study of religion and sport as well as scholarship investigating notions of sport as religious or spiritual practice.
The journal seeks contributions using diverse methodological approaches to religion and sport from a variety of disciplines such as myth and ritual studies, historical studies, popular culture studies, and liturgical studies. The editors welcome original scholarship in English from international contributors in the form of essays, book reviews, and film reviews.
Essays in this volume:
The Athletes of Christ: Spiritual Athleticism in Early English Christian Thought
Joshua Eyler
George Mason University
Batting Praxis: Time and Eternity in Augustine’s Confessions and Baseball
A. David Lewis
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Celebrating Contingency: Toward a Christian Theology of Sport
Reverend Dr. Lincoln Harvey
Tutor in Theology, St. Mellitus College, London, UK
Spirituality in Imagery: Application of the Hawaiian Ki’i Concept into Sport Psychology
Harald Barkhoff and Taupouri Tangaro
University of Hawaii at Hilo
The Oval Opiate?: The History and Analysis of an Idea and Claim
Dr. Michael Grimshaw
School of Social and Political Sciences
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
The Place of Ritual in South African Professional Soccer
Ian Lawrence
York St. John University