Welcome to the research website of Eric Bain-Selbo. At this site you can access articles and presentations by Eric Bain-Selbo, either as downloads or via web links to online journals. For a full curriculum vita, please click on the appropriate link.
Game Day and God: Football, Faith, and Politics in the American South
From Lost Cause to Third-and-Long: College Football and the Civil Religion of the South, Journal of Southern Religion (2009)
Ecstasy, Joy, and Sorrow: The Religious Experience of Southern College Football, Journal of Religion and Popular Culture (2008)
Sport as the “Opiate of the Masses”: College Football in the American South, Philosophy & Religion Faculty Publications (2008)
Karl Marx famously describes religion as the “opiate of the masses.” Marx argues that religion...
Structure and Communitas: The Affirmation and Negation of Race and Social Class in Southern College Football, Popular Culture Association (2007)
Religious Studies
From Lost Cause to Third-and-Long: College Football and the Civil Religion of the South, Journal of Southern Religion (2009)
Sacrifice in a Post-Moral Society, Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics/Calvin College (2009)
Ecstasy, Joy, and Sorrow: The Religious Experience of Southern College Football, Journal of Religion and Popular Culture (2008)
Moral Communities in a Pluralistic Nation, Unitarian Universalist Church of Bowling Green (2008)
Sport as the “Opiate of the Masses”: College Football in the American South, Philosophy & Religion Faculty Publications (2008)
Karl Marx famously describes religion as the “opiate of the masses.” Marx argues that religion...
Philosophy and Ethics
The Politics of the Romanticization of Popular Culture, or, Going Ga-Ga Over Pop Culture: A Critical Theory Assessment, Unpublished (2010)
Sacrifice in a Post-Moral Society, Henry Institute for the Study of Christianity and Politics/Calvin College (2009)
Moral Communities in a Pluralistic Nation, Unitarian Universalist Church of Bowling Green (2008)
Sport as the “Opiate of the Masses”: College Football in the American South, Philosophy & Religion Faculty Publications (2008)
Karl Marx famously describes religion as the “opiate of the masses.” Marx argues that religion...