ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews a selection of existing academic work on sport and spiritualized/religious bodies. It presents a brief overview of the more general literature on sport and religion, focusing on a topic around which own recent research has been located, that is, sport and the disabled body. The chapter focuses on sport, spirituality and religion, sport, religion and the body, sport, religion and the disabled body, and sport, religion and re-embodiment. It demonstrates the contribution which a physical cultural studies approach might bring to the academic interrogation of sport and spiritualized/religious bodies. The chapter explores and locates physically active bodies within the social, political and economic contexts which they inhabit and how they are represented, organized and regulated by the power structures in and against which they sit. It highlights the way in which the study of spiritualized/religious bodies might, at the same time, shape the contours of physical cultural studies itself.
