Muscular Christianity: Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880-1920

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Harvard University Press, 2009年6月1日 - 300 頁
Dissatisfied with a Victorian culture focused on domesticity and threatened by physical decline in sedentary office jobs, American men in the late nineteenth century sought masculine company in fraternal lodges and engaged in exercise to invigorate their bodies. One form of this new manly culture, developed out of the Protestant churches, was known as muscular Christianity. In this fascinating study, Clifford Putney details how Protestant leaders promoted competitive sports and physical education to create an ideal of Christian manliness.

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Introduction
1
1 The Birth of a Movement
11
2 God in the Gym
45
3 Men and Religion
73
4 Fishers of Boys
99
5 Worldwide Redemption
127
6 Muscular Women
144
7 Christians in Khaki
162
Conclusion
195
Notes
209
Selected Bibliography
269
Index
281
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第 275 頁 - THE ROMAN AND THE TEUTON. A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge.

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Clifford Putney is Assistant Professor of History at Bentley College.

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