Sportvallás
Sports as religion

Summary/Abstract: Sports have become the most encompassing and characteristic cultural formation of modern societies in the past century, functioning at the same time as mass movement and entertainment, popular pastime and spectacle, hobby, profession, industry and commercial business. Modern sports culture was born in England, from where it spread worldwide through such means as aristocratic sports life, college sports, mass sports companies, sports clubs and associations, as well as the pacifist Olympic ideal and the sport cult of totalitarian states, until it has finally become, in the last decades of the 20th century, one of the most profitable branch of the global entertainment industry.

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