Combining new approaches to the study of fan culture with critical assessments, Fanatics offers a comprehensive and timely examination of the state of European football fandom as the game prepares itself for the next millennium.

... disbelieved in life after death, thought him an uncultivated fanatic. The Pharisees, who regarded themselves as the guardians of the Law, reacted angrily to Jesus's attacks on them as narrow - minded and old - fashioned . The Zealots.

Come My Fanatics is the story of the rise and fall and triumphant return of the band, of their revolutionary and mind-expanding output, their legendary and calamitous tours, and of their legacy.

Perfect for football fans who like a good giggle, Football Jokes is filled with hundreds of the most hilarious football jokes around!

... fanatic , was born in Kiev , Russia , in Sa 1890. Located in Ukraine on the hilly west bank of the Dnieper River , the ancient city of Kiev grew to economic prominence at the crossroads on the trade routes between the Baltic and the ...

This volume investigates the way in which football supporters around the world express themselves as followers of teams, whether they be professional, amateur or national.

A book of contemporary poetry exploring the fine, shifting line between faith—secular and spiritual faith—and fanaticism in an insecure age, American Fanatics is a lyrical, pop-culture inflected meditation on democracy, morality, beauty ...

These essays provide a vantage point from which to understand the current crisis and its deep origins.

... fanatics and practitioners who were drawn to their area of fanaticism out of a desire for preventing others from experiencing the type of trauma or anxiety that they personally endured . These types of fanatics did not initially choose ...