This interdisciplinary text examines the sports-Christianity
interface from Protestant and Catholic perspectives. In addition to
a "systematic review of literature," field-pioneering contributors
such as Michael Novak, Shirl Hoffman, Joseph Price and Robert Higgs
address a wide range of topics from the sporting world, including
biblical athletic metaphors, disability, evangelism,
professionalism and celebrity, humility and pride, genetic
enhancement technologies, stereotypes, sport as art and British and
American historical analyses of sport and Christianity. Insightful
chapters from Scott Kretchmar, one of the world's leading
philosophers of sport, and Father Kevin Lixey, the head of the
Vatican's 'Church and Sport' office (2004-), add further depth and
breadth to this book, making it accessible and interesting to
academic and practitioner audiences alike. Within the context of
this relatively new and rapidly expanding area of inquiry, this
collection provides a unique and important addition to the current
literature for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, and
serves as a point of reference for scholars of theology and
religious studies, psychology, health studies, ethics and sports
studies. The book may also be of interest to physical educators and
sports coaches who wish to adopt a more "holistic" and ethical
approach to their work. As modern sport is often intertwined with
commercial and political agendas, this book offers an important
corrective to the "win-at-all-costs" culture of modern sport, which
cannot be fully understood through secular ethical inquiry.
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