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Sport and Religions of the World

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A word of explanation seems advisable as to the purpose of this series of lectures: Modern sport and the modern Olympic Movement have developed from the late industrial form of western Christian culture. Just as this (so-called) industrial culture has been the measure of what is modern in general, so also have western value systems, social forms, and behavioral patterns to a great extent defined international sport.

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Ommo Grupe Dietrich Kurz Johannes Marcus Teipel

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Schloz, R., Simon, E., Naciri, M., Nityabodhananda, S., Hirata, T. (1973). Sport and Religions of the World. In: Grupe, O., Kurz, D., Teipel, J.M. (eds) Sport in the Modern World — Chances and Problems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65784-9_11

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