Trent Atkinson (MA, Religious Studies) - Muscular Christianity

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Rooted in Victorian England as a response to a number of social and religious factors, Muscular Christianity is a set of beliefs that revolves around contact sports, the physicality of the male body, and a return to a “traditional” masculinity (a term always fraught), much writing has been done on Muscular Christianity in it’s heyday during the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries. What my research aims to do then is to examine the role that it plays in the 21^st century through the lens of American sports culture and American colleges, and how Muscular Christianity is shaping a new generation of men.

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