Muscular Christianity: Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880-1920 |
 enlarge | Author: Clifford Putney
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 310
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Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0674011252
Dewey Decimal Number: 973
EAN: 9780674011250
ASIN: 0674011252
Publication Date: April 30, 2003
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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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