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Mike Grimshaw, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Canterbury

If rugby is still a religion in New Zealand, how should its high priesthood respond to a crisis of faith?

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Rugby football was the best of all our pleasures: it was religion and desire and fulfilment all in one.

– John Mulgan, Report on Experience (1947)

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