Abe, Ikuo. “Muscular Christianity in
Japan: The Growth of a Hybrid.” International Journal of the History of
Sport 23, no. 5 (August 2006): 714-738.
The author examines the role that the notion of muscular Christianity played
in developing attitudes towards sports and modernity in Japan during the
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using Japanese translations
of the works of Thomas Hughes and Kingsley as an index of the extent that
muscular Christian ideas penetrated into Japan, Abe reveals that both Hughes
and Kingsley had an unexpected influence.
Muscular
Christianity; Japan.
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