This book explores the ways in whichreligion is observed, performed, and organised in skateboard culture.

Drawing on scholarship from the sociology of religion and the cultural politics of lifestyle sports, this work combines ethnographic research with media analysistoarguethatthe rituals ofskateboardingprovideparticipants with a rich cultural canvas for emotional and spiritual engagement.Paul OConnor contends thatreligiousidentification in skateboarding is set to increase as participants pursue ways to both control and engage meaningfully with an activity that has becomean increasinglymainstream andinstitutionalised sport. Religion is explored through the themes of myth, celebrity, iconography, pilgrimage, evangelism, cults, and self-help.