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Muscular Christianity

Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880-1920 [Paperback]

by Clifford Putney

    • Author

      Clifford Putney

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Harvard University Press

    • Published

      April 2003

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      Product Description

      Dissatisfied with a Victorian culture focused on domesticity and threatened by physical decline in sedentary office jobs, American men in the late 19th 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 study, Clifford Putney details how Protestant leaders promoted competitive sports and physical education to create an ideal of Christian manliness. Though rooted in the new culture of manhood, muscular Christianity was conceived to reinvigorate Protestantism itself, which in the minds of many was increasingly failing to create masculine, forceful natures capable of withstanding an influx of Catholic immigrants. Putney analyzes the role of such dynamic organizations as the Boy Scouts and the Young Men's Christian Association in making Protestant Christianity a religion that attracted boys and men to the vigorous life. He also portrays the muscular Christian movement's vivid personalities, including evangelist Dwight L. Moody, psychologist G.Stanley Hall (who warned of "woman peril" in the churches), and Theodore Roosevelt, the rough-riding, safari-going advocate of the Strenuous Life for the manly Christian.

      Specification

      • Author

        Clifford Putney

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        Harvard University Press

      • Published

        April 2003

      • Edition

        New edition

      • Weight

        464g

      • Page Count

        310

      • Dimensions

        155 x 238 x 23 mm

      • ISBN

        9780674011250

      • ISBN-10

        0674011252

      • Eden Code

        1153684

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      • Author/Creator: Clifford Putney

      • ISBN: 9780674011250

      • Publisher: Harvard University Press

      • Release Date: April 2003

      • Weight: 464g

      • Dimensions: 155 x 238 x 23 mm

      • Eden Code: 1153684

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