Muscular Christianity: Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880-1920
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Second, he shows that not only pastors, but secular reformers, from reporters to professors to government officials, were worried about a feminized church. Putney is to be commended for including Mormons, black Protestants and women like Girl Scout leaders who embraced at least slices of "muscular Christianity. In an age when Christian leaders like Bill McCartney are again using athletics to get men into the church, this study couldn't be more timely. With vigorous prose, Putney history, Bentley Coll.
Stanley Hall who called for drawing on "primitive" instincts to counter enervating intellectualism, men such as Theodore Roosevelt pushed for the "strenuous life" as a means of imposing self-discipline and reasserting the culture and interests of Protestants in America and abroad. Advocates of muscular Christianity promoted organized sports and outdoor activities like camping to build bodies able to evangelize and effect social reform.
The movement faded in the s, but its basic organizations persisted.
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Putney's focus on ideas and leaders misses the chance to observe how the boys and girls involved in Scouting, sports, and the YMCA understood the connections between healthy bodies and healthy faith, but his arguments on the construction of "muscular Christianity" add much to our understanding of the Progressive era and American cultural imperialism. Miller, Saint Joseph's Univ. Lest someone be confused, the present volume has the same title subtitles differ as a different recent volume by Tony Ladd and James Mathisen CH, Dec' Putney's work is a revision of his dissertation at Brandeis, vividly illustrated in 1, notes for pages of text.
Interestingly, Putney history, Bentley College refers to Ladd's volume in notes but fails to place it in his selected bibliography.
Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880-1920
Odd, too, for a scholarly work, that over three dozen notes carry the words "quoted in," as the writer has been led by secondary sources to important primary source quotations. Nevertheless, Putney does give a fine survey of muscular Christianity in Protestant America from to He sees this movement's major goals as "fulfilling emotional needs" as well as "'defeminizing' the clergy, 'masculinizing' religious imagery, and getting more men involved in the churches. Within his time frame Putney is comfortable; outside his time frame he is weak in relation to the history of sports.
That there was something of a masculinist movement in American society has been apparent for some time: But Putney has found that American Protestantism itself--long thought to be a bastion of feminine "sentimentality" was imbued with a macho style and ideology. By illustrating the depth and range of this masculinist sentiment, Putney has forced us to rethink the ways in which men and women alike shared the prevailing gender conventions of the period. Advocates of muscular Christianity promoted organized sports and outdoor activities like camping to build bodies able to evangelize and effect social reform When the horrors of world war induced a national pacifism, liberal Protestants finally sidled away from this cult of masculine piety.
Muscular Christianity
But Putney detects the strange reemergence of a recognizably similar masculine orthodoxy in a new setting: A fascinating study shedding light on a hidden link between the liberal Protestants of the past and the fundamentalists of today. Stanley hall and Theodore Roosevelt.
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This study details how Protestant leaders promoted competitive sports and physical education to create an ideal of Christian manliness.
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