Sports and Religion: Peanut Butter and Jelly or Oil and Water?
What's in a Name? Working Definitions of Sports and Religion
The Sacred and the Holy: Distinguishing the Indefinable
Wisdom and Strength: Two Faces of the Holy
The Religion of Sports and the Media: Marshall McLuhan among the Apologists
The Cross in the Coliseum: Sacred Ground and Battle Ground
Religion, Sports, and War: The Conflicted History of the Knight and the Shepherd
The Religion of Sports and That Old-time Religion: In the Steps of Mircea Eliade
Varieties of Mystical Experiences: Old and New
The Holy and the "Flow": Ultimacy Versus Intimacy
Ethics, Values, and Excellence: Testing the Spirits
The Statue of Zeus and Creation of Adam Athletic Art as Sacred and Holy
Humor and the Eternal Triangle: Mind, Sports, and Religion
The High Seriousness of the Religion of Sports: A Return to Polytheism?
: Apotheosis Versus Atonement
Appendix 1: Religious Dichotomies
Appendix 2: Textual Notes on Comparative Theology.