SURFING magazine has a feature about Surfing as a Religion.
things). Here you can get a peek at a scholarly article by Bron Taylor it drew on. His search for Surfing Spirituality began with a book, translated from German and published in English by a German publisher, and found in an Istanbul bookshop in June 2006, which began with the claim that surfing

“has a spiritual aura that you only get once you’ve experienced it yourself….
It’s always a journey to the inner self…. [Surfing] never will
lose its soul and spirit, because the magic that envelops you when
surfing is far too powerful (Mackert 2005: 3).”

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