Sport and Christianity: Historical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780367369064 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 124 str.

Hugh McLeod; Nils Martinius Justvik; Robert Hess

Opis

Sport and Christianity examines sport and Christianity from a variety of historical perspectives, with the main focus on the period from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries.

Spis treści

Series Editors' Foreword  Introduction: Sport and Christianity: Historical Perspectives < An Introduction Hugh McLeod, Nils Martinius Justvik, and Rob Hess  1. Gymnastics, Physical Education, Sport, and Christianity in Germany Michael Kru¨ger  2. A Sportful History of Christianity: The Case of Twentieth-Century Sweden Alexander Maurits and Martin Nykvist  3. Cultural Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Modernization of Physical Education and Sport in China, 1840<1949 Huijie Zhang, Fan Hong and Fuhua Huang  4. Mormon Missionaries and the Emergence of Modern Argentine Sport, 1938<1943 Ryan A. Davis  5.‘Necessary Cessation from Toil and Work’: Young Christian Workers and the Question of Sport on Sundays in Post-War Melbourne Melissa Jean Walsh and Nicholas Thomas Shaw Marshall  6.‘If God Be for Us, Who Can Be Against Us?’: Religion and Religiousness in Polish Football, 2008<2017 Michał Mazurkiewicz