With Super Bowl LIX on the minds of many Philadelphians this week, Omnia naturally decided to cover RELS Associate Professor Megan Eaton Robb's "Religion and Sports" course.
Sports can ... evoke that collective effervescence, unite unlikely groups or divide them, create space for ritual and ceremony for fans and players alike. Robb asks her students to grapple with these notions, using football, baseball, basketball, soccer, even cricket as case studies. It’s all in an effort to answer what Robb considers the most difficult question of them all in this context: Can a sport really be a religion?
We expect that the Birds might answer the question this week. E-A-G-L-E-S!