"Sport in Culture and Society" is the title of volume two of the "Handbook of Sport and Sport Science". This is the three-volume basic work published online by Springer Nature as a "reference work", a "handbook of the highest order", as Springer's advertising puts it. Volumes 1 and 3 will appear in print next year. Online, most of the articles are already available. The editors of the work, which has a total of around 2000 pages, are Prof. Dr. Arne Güllich from Kaiserslautern and Prof. Dr. Michael Krüger from Münster. Sports science from Münster is also represented among the numerous authors.