“The Manly and the Religious”: Muscular Christianity in the Literary Output of Charles Kingsley and Thomas Hughes
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2019
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Muzeum Narodowe w Kielcach
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Religion and sport have had an interesting and interconnected relationship since antiquity. Throughout the whole nineteenth century, Great Britain was the leader as far as the development of sports was concerned. It is there that numerous sports disciplines, such as football, rugby, tennis or golf, were born (or that at least their rules were codified). It is also in the British Isles that the religious context played an important role in the history of sports, which resulted in the creation of the ideology of Muscular Christianity, popular in the second half of the nineteenth century and later. This paper contains the analysis of the beginnings of that movement. The author presents the literary output of two English writers who believed that participation in sport could contribute to the development of Christian morality as well as fitness and manly character – Charles Kingsley and Thomas Hughes.
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Mazurkiewicz, Michał. (2019). "The Manly and the Religious": Muscular Christianity in the Literary Output of Charles Kingsley and Thomas Hughes. In: R. Kotowski, I.Mityk (Eds.). W kręgu zagadnień literatury powszechnej. Kielce: Muzeum Narodowe w Kielcach