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An example of a taboo in sports occurs just before the start of an ice hockey game, when players skate in front of their goal and tap the goalie on the pads for good luck.

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Witchcraft is one form of magic that has not been employed in sports.

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, the original tenets of the Protestant ethic, are the most valued qualities of an athlete.

In what ways do coaches and athletes employ magical practices? Give illustrations from the world of sports of rituals, taboos, and fetishes.

According to the discussion in your textbook about the Protestant ethic and the ideology of modern sport,

In a recent US Supreme Court ruling, the court provided an unusually direct permission for school-sanctioned prayer at high school sporting events.

According to one Canadian professor of comparative religion, Canadian ice hockey is a religion.

According to the authors of Muscular Christianity, with the social and economic transformations taking place in the nineteenth century, evangelical muscular Christians' prejudice against pleasure through play had broken down almost completely by the beginning of the twentieth century.

The most powerful force for restricting sports involvement in the colonial period of America was

Describe the founding of the Promise Keepers and discuss its major themes and its methods for carrying out its work.

What is Sportianity? Give examples of its forms and functions.

According to exhaustive research about magical practices in sport, fetishes are rarely used in baseball.