RELIGST 2EE3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Kenny Dalglish, Hillsborough Disaster, Mpeg-4 Part 14

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 2EE3
• Professor: Eileen Schuller

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Last names a-l: itb 137; m-z: bsb 137. One short essay question (20 points) choose from two options. Essay questions: think about overall point of course and how specific topics we have covered illustrate the ways in which sport is either a form of popular religion of its own, or how it complements institutional religion. Fa cup = calendrical ritual in english football. Too many people let into one end of the stadium. 96 people at front of crowd killed by being crushed against the fences. Deaths were captured on tv, witnessed by capacity crowd at stadium. Huge public expressions of grief in liverpool. Day after tragedy was sunday, all over city, deceased were remembered in church services. Requiem mass held in metropolitan cathedral for huge crowd. People also started coming to anfield, home stadium of liverpool fc. 1 million pilgrims came to anfield in the week following the tragedy.