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Sacramentally Imagining Sports as a Form of Worship: Reappraising Sport as a Gesture of God
John Bentley White, Sport, Ethics and Philosophy ,Volume 12, 2018 Pages 94-114

Saved
Peter Shilton and Steph Shilton, London, Ad Lib 2021. ISBN 9781913543648

Saving Sport
(Sport, society and spirituality), Kevin O’Gorman, The Columba Press, Dublin 2009. (272 pages including appendices)

Scandalous Freedom
Andy Kirk, Thewritecompanion, 2020. ISBN 9798693954489

Scholes: My story
Scholes: My story, with Ivan Ponting, London, Simon and Schuster, 2011. ISBN 978-0-86720-607-7

Scotland's Greatest Athlete
Scotland's Greatest Athlete: The Eric Liddell Story, DP Thompson, The Research Unit, Crieff 1970, Republished 1971 as Eric H Liddell: Athlete and Missionary (240 Pages) No ISBN

Scripture and sport psychology
Scripture and sport psychology, Derek de la Pena, iUniverse, New York, 2004 ISBN 0-595-32833, 129 Pages

Season of Life
Season of Life, Jeffrey Marx, Simon and Schuster, New York, 2004 ISBN 0-7432 6974 -8

Sepp Blatter
Mission und Passion, Fussball, Thomas Renggli, Thum, Wed und Weber, 2016. ISBN 978-3-85932-773-3

Sky Sports Football Yearbook 2011-12
London, Headline, 2011: ISBN 978 07553 62318

Sober
Tony Adams, London, Simon & Schuster, 2017. ISBN 978-1-4711-5674-8

Sol Campbell
The authorised biography, Simon Astaire, London: Spellbinding Media, 2014. ISBN 978-1-9099-6403-7

Something greater than Gold
Eric Liddell, Something greater than Gold, Janet and Geoff Benge, YWAM, Seattle, 1998 (203 pages) ISBN 1-57658-137-3

Soul Training
Roger Lipe, Cross Training Publishing, 2023

Sparring with Life
Jimmy Tibbs, Liverpool, Sport Media 2014. ISBN 9781908695857

Spirit of a champion
Spirit of a champion, Roger Lipe, Cross Training Publishing, 2003 ISBN 1-929478-57-7(86 pages)

Spirituality of Sport
Spirituality of Sport - Balancing body and soul, Susan Saint Sing, St Antony Messenger Press, Cincinnati, Ohio 2004 ISBN 0-86716-516-2 (137 pages)

Splashdown
The story of my World Cup Year, Chris Ashton, London, Simon and Schuster, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-85720-803-3

Sport an Educational and Pastoral challenge
Seminar of study on the theme of sport chaplains Vatican, 7-8 September 2007 LIBRERIA EDITRICE VATICANA 2008

Sport and Christianity (A sign of the times in the light of faith),
Edited by Kevin Lixey, L.C., Christoph Hubenthal, Dietmar Mieth, and Norbert Muller, Washington, D.C., 2012

Sport and Christianity (A sign of the times in the light of faith),
Full Review

Sport and Christianity (A sign of the times in the light of faith),
Shorter review

Sport and Christianity, Practices for the Twenty-First Century
Matt Hoven, Andrew Parker, Nick J Watson, Ed., London T&T Clark, 2019 ISBN 9780567678621

Sport and Religion
Shirl J. Hoffman, Editor, Human Kinetics Books 1992, ISBN 0-87322-341-1

Sport and Religion in the Twenty-first century
Brad Schulz and Mary Lou Sheffer, Lanham, Lexington Books, 2016. ISBN9781498514415

Sport and spirituality
Sport and Spirituality, Jim Parry, Simon Robinson, Nick J Watson and Mark Nesti, Routledge, 2007. ISBN10-0-415-40483 5

Sport And Spirituality
edited Gordon Preece and Ron Hess, ATF Press, Adelaide. No date (was 2010)

Sport and Spirituality
Mastery and Failure in Sporting Lives - Richard Hutch

Sport and St Paul
a course for champions, Edio Costantini and Kevin Lixey, The John Paul II Sports Foundation, Rome, 2011

Sport and Sundays
Dan Walker, Leominster, Day One Publications 2009. ISBN 978-1-84625-172-6

Sport and the Christian Religion
Nick J. Watson and Andrew Parker, Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014 ISBN(10):1-4438-5503-0

Sport as Liturgy: Towards a radical Orthodoxy of Sport – Andrew Edgar

Sport in Latin America
Gonzaio Bravo,Rosa Lopez de D’Amico and Charles Parrish Ed., London, Routledge, 2016. ISBN 978-0-415-74589-5

Sport in “quotes”,
Sport in “quotes”, Lewes, Ammonite Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-90770-852-7

Sport Inc
Ed Warner, London, Yellow Jersey, 2018. ISBN978178290129

Sport, Celebrity and Religion: Christianity, Morality and the Tebow Phenomenon
Andrew Parker, and Nick J Watson,Studies in World Christianity,2015, 21(3) Pp: 223-238

Sport, Disability and the Olympics
An Exploration of the Status and Prophetic Role of the Special Olympic Movement in Light of London 2012

Sport, Education, Faith
Towards a new season for Catholic sports associations, Liberia Editrice Vaticana, Rome, 2011

Sport, faith, life
Brian R Bolt, Grand Rapids, Calvin College Press, 2018. ISBN 978-1-937555-30-6

Sport, Psychology and Christianity
Brian Hemmings, Nick J Watson and Andrew Parker,Ed., London, Routledge, 2019 ISBN 978-0-8153-4910-5

Sport: Race, Ethnicity and Identity
Edited by Daryl Adair, London: Routledge, 2014. ISBN 978-0-415-48354-6

Sportonomics
Gavin Newsham, London, Carlton, 2013. ISBN 978-1-78097-265-7

Sports and Christianity (Historical and Contemporary Perspectives)
2,400 word review

Sports and Christianity (Historical and Contemporary Perspectives),
Nick J Watson and Andrew Parker, New York, Routledge, 2012. ISBN 978-0-415-89922-2

Sports and Christianity (Historical and Contemporary Perspectives),
Shorter review

Sports and spirituality for devotionals (basketball)
Dickie Hill, Meadville, Christian Faith Publishing, 2018. ISBN 978-1-64140-653-6

Sports Chaplaincy, Theology and Social Theory
Disrupting Performance-Based Identity in Elite Sporting Contexts, Luke Jones, Andrew Parker, and Graham Daniels, Religions, December 2020

Sports Chaplaincy: ChaplaincyTrends, issues and debates’
Edited by Andrew Parker, Nick J.Watson and John B. White, London, Routledge, 2016. ISBN: 9781472414038

Sports outreach
Sports outreach, Principles and practice for successful sports ministry, Steve Connor, Christian Focus Publications, Tain, Scotland, 2003 (192 Pages - size A4) ISBN 1-85792-724-9

Sports Theology
Sports Theology (Playing Inside Out), Greg S. Smith, Indianapolis, Dog Ear Publishing, 2010. ISBN: 978-160844-3-338

Sports Theology: Finding God's winning spirit
Greg S.Smith, Indianapolis, Dog Ear Publishing, 2014 ISBN: 978-160844-338-3

Sports, Religion and Disability
Edited by Nick J. Watson and Andrew Parker, London: Routledge, 2015. ISBN 13: 978-08-0-415-71415-0

Spurred to Success
Glenn Hoddle, London, Queen Anne Press. 1987. ISBN0-356-12797-4

St Paul's application of athletic metaphors to the Christian life
St Paul's application of athletic metaphors to the Christian life: an exegetical study of 1 Corinthians 9:24-27, Galatians 2:2, Phillippians 2:14-16, Philippians 3:13-14, and 2 Timothy 4:6-8, Dean A Vieselmeyer, MDiv, Concordia Theological Seminary

Stan Anderson, captain of the north
Stan Anderson, Cheltenham, Sports Books, 2010: ISBN 9781899807 98 7

Steps along Hope Street
Steps along Hope Street, David Sheppard, Hodder & Stoughton , London 2002. ISBN: 0340861169

Stillness and speed
Dennis Bergkamp, London, Simon and Schuster, 2013. ISBN 978-147112-951-3

Strength of Religious Faith

Studies in Christian Ethics 25:1 (February 2012)

Supersub
David Fairclough, Liverpool, de Coubertin Books, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-909245-28-0

Survive and Advance
Tianna Bartoletta, CG Sports Publishing, 2021

Swim, Bike, Run
Alistair Brownlee and Jonathan Brownlee, London, Viking/Penguin, 2013. ISBN: 978-0-670-92312-0



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