Religion

Except for the occasional moment of evangelical witness, sports, by and large, is not about God.  Religion, on the other hand, is all about God. So sports, ipso facto, cannot be a new religion.  But one of the earliest sociologists of religion, Emile Durkheim, thought that God actually wasn’t exactly necessary to religion at all.   Drawing on a cross-cultural comparison of modern and primitive religious practices, he defined the concept… Read More »Emile Durkheim Explains How Sports Are the New Religion