Porter, Jennifer. “Implicit Religion in Popular Culture: the Religious Dimensions of Fan Communities.” Implicit Religion 12:3 (2009):271-280.

            Retrieved from: http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~jporter/Porter_Implicit_Religion.pdf

 

This article discusses Implicit Religion in some pop cultutres including Star Trek and Elvis, and also metioning hockey, stating NHL is "like" an ecclesia. (Sinclair-Faulkner 1977). This souce helps explain implicit religion in pop culture so it can futher be related to hockey in Canada.

 

 

Sinclair-Faulkner, Tom. “A Puckish Look at Hockey in Canada.” Religion and Culture in Canada. Ed. Peter Slater. CCSR, 1977, 383-405.

 

This article focuses on the idea of hockey as a religion, using different models, theroies and personal experinces to explain his findings. Sinclair-Faulker's evidence helps to further prove hockey as Canada's religion.

 

 

Trothen, Tracy. “Hockey: A divine sport? Canada’s National Sport in Relation to Embodiment, Community and Hope.” Studies in Religion 35(2) 2006, 291-305.

           Retrieved from: http://sir.sagepub.com/content/35/2/291.full.pdf+html

 

Trothen's study examines hockey in Canada to discover what is religious and appleaing about the sport. Hockey is looked at on all levels for this study and compared to Christianity to form the like. The results of this study will be used to discuss  hockey as a Canadian religion.

 

 

Trothen, Tracy. “Holy Acceptable Violence? Violence in Hockey and Christian Atonement Theories.” Journal of Religion & Popular Culture, Spring2009 Supplement, Vol. 21.

 

This article discusses Hockey and Christianity and the negative affects of violence in the sport, both spiritually and physically. The findings in this article will be used to help to discuss violence in hockey, and some of the negative effects.  

 

 

Trovato, Frank. “The Stanley Cup of Hockey and Suicide in Quebec, 1951-1992.” Social Forces (1998) 77 (1): 105-126.                                                                 Retrieved from: http://sf.oxfordjournals.org/content/77/1/105.full.pdf+html

           

This article looks at the startling relationship between suicide and hockey in Quebec. The finding in this study found the amount of suicide attempted with young males fluctuates (positive correlation with wins) with the performance of the Montreal Canadiens in the playoffs. The findings of this study will be dicussed within the topic of the Montreal Canadiens to explain how strongly some fans feel about the team.