Theology Disability And Sport Social Justice Perspectives | Sport & Leisure

This ground-breaking book provides fascinating insights into the fast-emerging body of research that explores the relationship between sport theology and disability within a social justice framework. In the shadow of two major sport-faith events that fore-fronted the theology of disability sport the Vatican’s international conference-Sport at the Service of Humanity and the Inaugural Global Congress on Sports and Christianity York St John University UK at which Dr Brian Brock led a thematic strand on the topic-this book provides a foundation for further research and practice. This text is a timely and important synthesis of ideas that have emerged in two previously distinct areas of research: (i) ‘disability sport’ and (ii) the ‘theology of disability’. Examples of subjects addressed in this text include: elite physical disability sport-Paralympics; intellectual disability sport-Special Olympics; equestrian sport; church sport and disability and; theologies of embodiment competition and mercy. This book written by leaders in their respective fields begins a critical conversation on these topics and many others for both researchers and practitioners. The chapters originally published in the Journal of Disability and Religion and Quest. |Theology Disability and Sport Social Justice Perspectives | Sport & Leisure