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Sport is all about play and game, aesthetic and strength, passion
and emotion, challenge and rivalry. But because sometimes players
and fans look for a little extra help from God, gods, spirits or
any other Supreme Being, sport is also a matter of beliefs and
Faith. Often, sport uses religion if the sport itself does not
become a religion first. In Montreal, the fans' passion and emotion
benefits the Montreal Canadiens, the oldest and the most victorious
National Hockey League team. Since 2008, the Protestant Theologian
Olivier Bauer, a former hockey goaltender, is carefully studying
the religious aspects of the Montreal Canadiens. In his book,
Olivier Bauer reveals how the Montreal Canadiens becomes a
religion, specifies which kind of religion it is, and explains how
it is interrelated with Quebec's Catholicism. From a theological
point of view, he analyses two ways of practicing the Montreal
Canadiens Religion, shows why both ways are idolatry, denounces the
weakness of such a religion, and pleads for an evangelical use of
the Montreal Canadiens. Based on the Montreal Canadiens, Olivier
Bauer explains how sport becomes a religion, but he also critics
the religion that sport offers.
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