The Norbertine Antoon Van Clé (1891-1955) was one of the first people within the Belgian Church to concern himself systematically with the spiritual needs of professional sporters (especially cycl…
The 'religiousness' of sport, and in particular the notion of 'belonging', is examined through the example of Liverpool FC and its relationship with its fans. The starting point is the ongoing coll…
In recent centuries, sport has received increasing attention from society, the media, the business community, and the financial world. It has also become a challenge for sport itself and its very i…
A term that has recently appeared in literature is 'sporting sacred' as an attempt to explain extremely powerful experiences in the area of sport. The paper criticizes this interpretation from a pe…
In this paper, the relationship between religion and sport will be elucidated by referring to the so-called transcendentals. In scholastic theology, the transcendentals stood for the super-categori…