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1. Theology, Ethics and Transcendence in Sports

   Edited by Jim Parry, Mark Nesti, Nick Watson

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   This book provides an inter-disciplinary examination of the relationship between sport, spirituality and religion. It covers a wide-range of topics, such as prayer and sport, religious and spiritual perspectives on athletic identity and ‘flow’ in sport, theological analysis of genetic performance...

   Published November 7th 2010 by Routledge
2. Psychology in Football

   Working with Elite and Professional Players

   By Mark Nesti

   How can the skills of the sport psychologist be put to best use within a football club? How can a sport psychologist help elite footballers perform at their maximum level? In this groundbreaking guide to the role of the sport psychologist within elite and professional football, leading sport...

   Published June 8th 2010 by Routledge
3. Sport and Spirituality

   An Introduction

   By Jim Parry, Simon Robinson, Nick Watson, Mark Nesti

   Sport science can quantify many aspects of human performance but the spiritual dimensions of sports experience cannot be fully understood through measurement. However, the spiritual experience of sport – be it described as ‘flow’, ‘transcendence’ or the discovery of meaning and value – is central...

   Published August 21st 2007 by Routledge
4. Existential Psychology and Sport

   Theory and Application

   By Mark Nesti

   This book offers a radical alternative to the cognitive and cognitive-behavioural approaches that have dominated sport psychology, and is the first to systematically apply existential psychological theory and phenomenological method to sport psychology. This much-needed alternative framework for...

   Published May 16th 2006 by Routledge