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This chapter presents three fundamental functions of religious violence—cosmological, ethical, and social-psychological. While drawing upon a number of critical scholars from multiple disciplines, the chapter focuses on the seminal work of theorist Rene Girard. The chapter concludes by showing how theories of religious violence can be used to enhance our understanding of sport.
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Exodus 32:25–35 describes the plague that the Lord inflicts on his people, even after his servants—the Levites—had slaughtered about 3000 of them.
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See surah 9:73 in the Qur’an.
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An extensive argument in this regard is found in my book Game Day and God: Football, Faith, and Politics in the American South (2012).
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This diagram is adapted from Fig. 2 in Pisk’s work. Many thanks to Western Kentucky University student Kenneth Nauert for creating this image.
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Bain-Selbo, E. (2017). First Quarter: Theoretical Approaches to Religious Violence. In: Violence in Southern Sport and Culture. SpringerBriefs in Religious Studies(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50059-1_1
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