Muscular Christianity : Evangelical Protestants and the Development of American Sport Book

Preface	7
Introduction	11
1 The Rise of Evangelicals and the Development of Sport in America	22
2 The Engagement of Religion and Sport	48
3 The Disengagement of Evangelical Muscular Christians from Sport	69
4 Toward the Reengagement of Evangelicalism and Sport	95
5 Institutionalizing Muscular Christianity since the 1950s	123
6 Interinstitutional Muscular Christianity: Church, College,
and Sport in Modern America	161
7 Interpreting the Ethos of Modern Evangelical Muscular
Christianity: Religion and Sport in New Patterns of Cultural	200
Afterword: Could There Be Another Disengagement?	237
Notes	247
Index	282