Sports, Religion and Disability

ISBN-13: 9780367739270 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 238 str.

Nick J. Watson; Andrew Parker

Opis

This ground-breaking book provides a fascinating insight into the relationship between sports (and leisure), religion and disability in both elite sport and recreation and leisure contexts. In the shadow of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympic Games, at which athletes that were both able-bodied and disabled, provided an extravaganza of sporti

Spis treści

Preface  1. Special Olympians as a ‘Prophetic Sign’ to the Modern Sporting Babel  2. Disability as a Path to Spiritual Enlightenment: An Ethnographic Account of the Significance of Religion in Paralympic Sport  3. Running the (Special) Race: New (Pauline) Perspectives on Disability and Theology of Sport  4. Towards a Theology of Disability Sport: A Misconstrued Game Plan  5. The Experience of Spirituality and Disability Sport for British Military Personnel Traumatically Injured in Iraq and Afghanistan: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis  6. Nature-Based Recreation, Spirituality, and Persons with Disabilities  7. Researching Religion, Disability, and Sport: Reflections and Possibilities  8. “Celebration” as the Spiritual Expression of Leisure and Sport: Reflections on the L’Arche Tradition and the Special Olympics  9. A Modern Conception of Flesh: Towards a Theology of Disability Sport  10. A Postcolonial Approach to Understanding Sport-Based Empowerment of People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in Zambia: The Case of the Cultural Philosophy of Ubuntu  11. Radical Orthodoxy and the Emergence of Spiritual Hero-Athletes: Examining Lance Armstrong’s “Illness” Narrative  12. Meet My Exes: Theological Reflections on Disability and Paralympic Sport—A Continuum of Ephemeral Deaths and Eternal Resurrection  13. Triumph From Anguish: The Inspiration of the Special Olympics  14. Christianity, Sport and Disability: A Case Study of the Role of Long-Distance Running in the Life of a Father and his Son who is Congenitally Blind and has Profound Intellectual Disabilities

O autorze

Dr Nick J. Watson is Senior Lecturer in Sport, Culture and Religion at York St John University (YSJU), UK, and is head of pastoral care for sports students. He was the Founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Sport and Spirituality (YSJU, 2003-2009) and is the co-author / editor of a number of books on sport and Christianity.

Andrew Parker is Professor of Sport and Christian Outreach and Director of the Centre for Sport, Spirituality and Religion (CSSR) in the Faculty of Applied Sciences at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. He is former co-editor of the International Journal of Religion and Sport.