Sports, religion and disability / edited by and introduction by by Nick J. Watson and Andrew Parker ; preface by Joni Eareckson Tada.
"This book was based on two special issues of the Journal of Disability and Religion"--page [i].
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge; Taylor & Francis Group,
2015.
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 238 pages ; 26 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Special Olympians as a "prophetic sign" to the modern sporting babel
- Disability as a path to spiritual enlightenment : an ethnographic account of the significance of religion in paralympic sport
- Running the (special) race : new (Pauline) perspectives on disability and theology of sport
- Towards a theology of disability sport : a misconstrued game plan
- The experience of spirituality and disability sport for British military personnel traumatically injured in Iraq and Afghanistan : an interpretative phenomenological analysis
- Nature-based recreation, spirituality, and persons with disabilities
- Researching religion, disability, and sport : reflections and possibilities
- "Celebration" as the spiritual expression of leisure and sport : reflections on the L'Arche tradition and the Special Olympics
- A modern conception of flesh : towards a theology of disability sport
- 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
- Radical orthodoxy and the emergence of spiritual hero-athletes : examining Lance Armstrong's "illness" narrative
- Meet my exes : theological reflections on disability and paralympic sport : a continuum of ephemeral deaths and eternal resurrection
- Triumph from anguish : the inspiration of the Special Olympics
- 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.