Muscular Christianity and the Colonial and Post-Colonial World

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.

• Preface1. 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 Guinea8. 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

"This volume presents accounts of cultural change, appropriation, adaptation and ideology that have shaped the lives of millions of people through the experience of colonisation and beyond." Jessica S. R. Robinson