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Muscular Christianity: Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880-1920 | 
 enlarge | Author: Clifford Putney
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1633434
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 310
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.5 x 1.2
ISBN: 0674006348
Dewey Decimal Number: 280.4097309034
EAN: 9780674006348
ASIN: 0674006348
Publication Date: November 30, 2001
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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. (20011015)
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