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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 compulsive disorder"--
About the author
SEAN O'NEIL is an affiliated scholar with the Sport and Religion Research Alliance at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He lives in Fort Worth, Texas, where he is also a bishop, pastor, and hospital chaplain. He has written for
Religion Dispatches and his articles have appeared in the
Encyclopedia of Religion and Film and Identity and Myth in Sports Documentaries: Critical Essays.
Summary
Studies the intersectionality of religion and disability as it exists within contemporary sports. To do so, Sean O’Neil calls to the forefront various contemporary stories about trauma and disability, and examines how we tell and interpret these stories within the frameworks of athletic activity, competition, failure, and success.
