Does Lance Armstrong represent a modern day cultural religion?
Infamous cycling champion and high profile cancer survivor Lance Armstrong is a self-professed atheist. Raised by his church deacon step-father, a violent and overbearing man, Armstrong rejected conventional religion in his early life. Yet throughout much of his suffering and cycling career, Armstrong has openly worn a silver cross. New research in the Journal of Contemporary Religion explores his journey through defeating cancer, sporting triumph and drugs scandal, and asks must spirituality go hand-in hand with religion?