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Informationen zum Autor John J MacAloon is Professor and Deputy Dean of the Social Sciences Division at the University of Chicago. He is author of the classic! The Great Symbol: Pierre De Coubertin and the origins of the modern Olympic Games. Klappentext This book explores the impact Muscular Christianity's ethos has had an on English-speaking modern civil society. The papers include fascinating global case materials in a joint effort to outline a truly international! post-colonial sport history. Zusammenfassung This book explores the impact Muscular Christianity’s ethos has had an on English-speaking modern civil society. The papers include fascinating global case materials in a joint effort to outline a truly international, post-colonial sport history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. Introduction: Muscular Christianity after 150 Years 2. The Social Gospel and the Persistence of Muscular Christianity in Canada 3. Tom Brown in Pre- and Post-Colonial Japan: The Growth of a Hybrid 4. Yoga at the Fin-de-Siècle: Muscular Christianity with a Hindu Twist 5. Christ and the Imperial Playing Fields: Thomas Hughes's Ideological Heirs in Empire 6. Tom Brown Goes Global: The "Brown Ethic" and Colonial and Post-Colonial India 7. From Trobriand Cricket to Rugby Nation: The Mission of Sport in Papua! New Guinea 8. Baseball and Decolonizaion: The Caribbean! 1945-75 9. From Martial Arts to Adventure Training: The Strenuous Ethic in China's New Corporate Culture 10. Dilemmas of Preserving the Muscular Christian Heritage in Rugby! Tennessee: An Interview with Barbara Stagg 11. Meanwhile in Britain: Muscular Christianity and the Crisis of "Englishness." 12. High Hopes and Hard Times: Modelling Society in Adventure based Education 13. Outward Bound and Inward Turn-Gender and the Muscular Christian Tradition
