Sean O’Neil, Ph.D.

Education:

PhD Religion, Religion in the Americas Track, University of Florida 2012

MA International Affairs-Latin American Studies, Ohio University 2003

BA English and History, University of King’s College, Halifax, 1999.

 

Courses Taught:

RELI 10033 Understanding Religion: Texts and Ideas: Christianity and Popular Culture

RELI 10043 Understanding Religion: Society and Culture: Religion, Health, and Meaning

RELI 10043 Understanding Religion: Society and Culture: Religion and Sports

 

Areas of Focus:

Christian Thought and Ethics

Christianity and Popular Culture

Charismatic and Pentecostal Christianity

Religion and Sports

Religion and Health

Religion and Disability

Religion in Canada, the USA, and Latin America

 

Sample Publications:

Spirit and Sport: Religion and the Fragile Athletic Body in Popular Culture (University of Tennessee Press, 2022).

"A Body Broken and Rebuilt for You: Religious Embodiment in Chase Heavener’s Tim Tebow: Everything In Between”, in Identity and Myth in Sports Documentaries: Critical Essays. Ed. Z. Ingle and D. Sutera (Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2013), 29-43.

"Latin America” in Encyclopedia of Religion and Film. ed. E. Mazur (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2011), 289-294.