Sport and religion. muscular christianity and the young men`s christian association. ideology, activity and expansion (great britain, the united states and poland, 1857-1939), AZ#0A8C993AEB/DL-ebwm/pdf (Michał Mazurkiewicz)

Tytuł Sport and Religion. Muscular Christianity and the Young Men’s Christian Association. Ideology, Activity and Expansion (Great Britain, the United States and Poland, 1857-1939) Autor Michał Mazurkiewicz Język angielski Wydawnictwo Uniwersytet Jana Kochanowskiego ISBN 978-83-7133-719-2 Rok wydania 2018 liczba stron 246 Format pdf Spis treści Table of Contents
Introduction – Sport and Religion 9
1. Victorian England – the Birth of Modern Sport 19
1.1. General characteristics of the Victorian era 19
1.2. Leisure 23
1.3. Victorian sport 26
1.3.1. Cricket 30
1.3.2. Football 32
1.3.3. Rugby 33
1.3.4. Boxing 34
1.3.5. Golf 36
1.3.6. Emergence of a sports hero – W. G. Grace 38
1.4. Religion 41
2. Muscular Christianity in Great Britain 47
2.1. Muscular Christianity before the nineteenth century 47
2.2. British nineteenth-century Muscular Christianity 49
2.2.1. Charles Kingsley 51
2.2.2. Thomas Hughes 57
2.2.3. Edward Thring 64
2.2.4. The question of sexuality 66
3. Muscular Christianity in the United States (part one) 71
3.1. Reception – beginnings and development 71
3.2. Catholics ("Muscular Catholicism") 80
3.3. Manly literature 82
3.4. The Third Great Awakening 88
3.5. Dwight L. Moody 92
3.6. The Studds family – English-American linkage
of Muscular Christianity 95
4. The Young Men’s Christian Association 99
4.1. Birth and development 99
4.2. The Student Volunteer Movement 106
4.3. The Men and Religion Forward Movement 108
4.4. YMCA’s contribution to education and sport 111
4.4.1. Springfield College 112
4.4.2. Amos Alonzo Stagg 116
4.4.3. James Naismith 117
4.4.4. William G. Morgan 120
4.4.5. Other examples 121
5. Muscular Christianity in Early Twentieth-Century America
– Secularizing Changes 123
5.1. Social Gospel 124
5.2. Progressives 127
5.3. Changes in the status of women 129
5.4. Theodore Roosevelt – a "muscular" president 131
5.5. Billy Sunday 138
6. Muscular Christians during World War I 145
6.1. High expectations 145
6.2. YMCA activities 152
7. Muscular Christianity after the Great War 161
7.1. Post-war disillusionment and revival 161
7.2. Enfeeblement of Muscular Christianity 166
7.3. Eric Liddell 171
7.4. Scout movement 173
8. The Young Men’s Christian Association in Poland 177
8.1. Diffusion of American and British culture
– a question of sport 177
8.2. Sport in the Second Polish Republic 184
8.3. The Role of Józef Piłsudski 191
8.4. Birth and development of Polish YMCA (Pol. Związek Młodzieży
Chrześcijańskiej "Polska YMCA") 194
8.5. Polish YMCA and the Catholic Church 205
Conclusions and Final Remarks 209
Bibliography 227
Filmography 251