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Sportification

By Anand Rampersad

Religion, sport can serve good of all
Published: Monday, May 5, 2014 (T&T Guardian)

Religion has had both a positive and negative relationship with sports.
 
On one hand, both religion and sports have been built upon a positive ethos of commitment to hard work, personal sacrifice, fairness and achievement. They both incorporate the use of rituals and customs and it is common to see the invocation of God in training, team meetings and in the celebration of success and even failure.
 
On the other hand, it has been argued that the spirit of competitive sports have sometimes weakened the spiritual bond of people both as active and passive participants.
 
In the Christian-dominated US, Woods (2007) argues that religion has been used as a means to justify American preoccupation with sports. Not only is sports seen as having an appeal to God, it has also been a means through which religious bodies have used sports to reinforce its membership.
 
For instance, Woods (2007) cites the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), secondary schools such as Christ the King and universities such as Oral Roberts University use sports through the provision of sporting facilities and excellent sporting programmes to attract new