Foreword / Robert Ellis
Introduction / Afe Adogame, Nick J. Watson, Andrew Parker
Part I: Some transdisciplinary considerations
Challenging the secular bias in the sociology of sport : scratching the surface of Christian approaches to sociology / Tom Gibbons
Sports in the Biblical narrative / Jeremy Treat
Part II: Non-Western perspectives on sport and Christianity
Interreligious football : Christianity, African tradition and the religion of football in South Africa / David Chidester
Soccer fandom as catechism : practices of the sacred among young men in Argentina / Eloisa Martin
Soccer victory authorized by the gods : prophecy, popular memory and the peculiarities of place / Olutayo Adesina
The church and FIFA World Cup in Ghana : a gender perspective / Rose Mary Amenga-Etego
Religion and sport in multireligious Nigeria : the case of Kaduna City Interfaith Football Club / Corey Williams
Spirituality and martial arts : fitting in the life-world / Jonathan Tuckett
Playing and praying in the premiership : public display of beliefs in English football / Abel Ugba
Part III: Western perspectives on sport and Christianity
Sport, society, religion and the Church of Scotland / Grant Jarvie
Protestantism and sport in the Bible belt of Norway in the first half of the 20th century / Nils Martinius Justvik
Sport, celebrity and religion : Christianity, morality and the Tebow phenomenon / Andrew Parker, Nick Watson
Church, sports and tragedy : religion and rituals of public mourning in the Glasgow Ibrox disasters of 1902 and 1971 / James Deming
Sport and Christianity in American cinema : the beloved grew fat and kicked (Deuteronomy 32:15) / Seán Crosson
Christianity, boxing and mixed martial arts : reflections on morality, vocation and well-being / Nick Watson, Brian Brock
Hillsborough and the Church of England / James Jones.