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The third edition of this fascinating book deals with both levels of the competition--the competitive side and the administrative side. The dictionary includes hundreds of cross-referenced entries on the major sports, more outstanding athletes, participating countries and numerous bodies in the organization as well as successive generations of officials--starting with the founder, Pierre de Coubertin. Two chronologies trace the history of the Olympic movement back to the Ancient Olympiad first celebrated in Greece in 776 B.C. as well as all of the modern Games up to Athens in 2004. The appendixes then provide elusive facts on the Games, the officials, the torchbearers, and the top Olympic medal winners.
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03-370 (1) Front 3/18/04 12:51 PM Page ii 05-374 (01) Front.qxd 10/20/05 7:13 AM Page i HISTORICAL DICTIONARIES OF RELIGIONS, PHILOSOPHIES, AND MOVEMENTS Jon Woronoff, Series Editor 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. Buddhism, by Charles S. Prebish, 1993 Mormonism, by Davis Bitton, 1994. Out of print. See No. 32. Ecumenical Christianity, by Ans Joachim van der Bent, 1994 Terrorism, by Sean Anderson and Stephen Sloan, 1995. Out of print. See No. 41. Sikhism, by W. H. McLeod, 1995. Out of print. See No. 59. Feminism, by Janet K. Boles and Diane Long Hoeveler, 1995. Out of print. See No. 52. Olympic Movement, by Ian Buchanan and Bill Mallon, 1995. Out of print. See No. 39. Methodism, by Charles Yrigoyen Jr. and Susan E. Warrick, 1996. Out of Print. See No. 57. Orthodox Church, by Michael Prokurat, Alexander Golitzin, and Michael D. Peterson, 1996 Organized Labor, by James C. Docherty, 1996. Out of print. See No. 50. Civil Rights Movement, by Ralph E. Luker, 1997 Catholicism, by William J. Collinge, 1997 Hinduism, by Bruce M. Sullivan, 1997 North American Environmentalism, by Edward R. Wells and Alan M. Schwartz, 1997 Welfare State, by Bent Greve, 1998 Socialism, by James C. Docherty, 1997 Bahá’í Faith, by Hugh C. Adamson and Philip Hainsworth, 1998 Taoism, by Julian F. Pas in cooperation with Man Kam Leung, 1998 Judaism, by Norman Solomon, 1998 Green Movement, by Elim Papadakis, 1998 Nietzscheanism, by Carol Diethe, 1999 Gay Liberation Movement, by Ronald J. Hunt, 1999 Islamic Fundamentalist Movements in the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey, by Ahmad S. Moussalli, 1999 Reformed Churches, by Robert Benedetto, Darrell L. Guder, and Donald K. McKim, 1999 Baptists, by William H. Brackney, 1999 Cooperative Movement, by Jack Shaffer, 1999 Reformation and Counter-Reformation, by Hans J. Hillerbrand, 2000 05-374 (01) Front.qxd 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 10/20/05 7:13 AM Page ii Shakers, by Holley Gene Duffield, 2000 United States Political Parties, by Harold F. Bass Jr., 2000 Heidegger’s Philosophy, by Alfred Denker, 2000 Zionism, by Rafael Medoff and Chaim I. Waxman, 2000 Mormonism, 2nd ed., by Davis Bitton, 2000 Kierkegaard’s Philosophy, by Julia Watkin, 2001 Hegelian Philosophy, by John W. Burbidge, 2001 Lutheranism, by Günther Gassmann in cooperation with Duane H. Larson and Mark W. Oldenburg, 2001 Holiness Movement, by William Kostlevy, 2001 Islam, by Ludwig W. Adamec, 2001 Shinto, by Stuart D. B. Picken, 2002 Olympic Movement, 2nd ed., by Ian Buchanan and Bill Mallon, 2001. Out of Print. See No. 61. Slavery and Abolition, by Martin A. Klein, 2002 Terrorism, 2nd ed., by Sean Anderson and Stephen Sloan, 2002 New Religious Movements, by George D. Chryssides, 2001 Prophets in Islam and Judaism, by Scott B. Noegel and Brannon M. Wheeler, 2002 The Friends (Quakers), by Margery Post Abbott, Mary Ellen Chijioke, Pink Dandelion,