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Spirit and Sport: Religion and the Fragile Athletic Body in Popular Culture

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Spirit and Sport: Religion and the Fragile Athletic Body in Popular Culture - O'Neil, Sean Samuel
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"Sean O'Neil explores several narratives at the intersection of religion and disability across the spectrum of contemporary sports. He ties religious belief and practice to the oftentimes fragile bodies of athletes, including those with disabilities. Athletic triumph over fragility is couched in religious terms, though not always with strictly Christian connotations, and O'Neil interleaves his own limitations through an autoethnographic presentation of his battle with skin cancer and his lifelong struggle with obsessive ...

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Spirit and Sport: Religion and the Fragile Athletic Body in Popular Culture 2022, Univ Tennessee Press

ISBN-13: 9781621907343

Hardcover