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Dear visitors! Below are essay samples you are welcome to use as starting points for your own writing. These sample essays are written by our writers. You are welcome to contact us for more information about our services! Although sports and religion may seem to have little in common, we have attempted to demonstrate that contemporary sport and religion are related in a variety of ways. For many centuries, Christian church dogma was antithetical to play and sport activities, but over the past century, with the enormous growth of organized sport, churches and religious leaders have welded a link between these two activities by sponsoring sports events under religious auspices and proselytizing athletes to religion and then using them as missionaries to convert new members. While contemporary religion uses sport for the promotion of its causes, sport uses religion, as well. Numerous activities with a religious connotation – ceremonies, rituals, and so forth – are employed in connection with sports contests…