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Richard Ian Kimball. Sports in Zion: Mormon Recreation, 1890–1940. (Sport and Society.) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2003. Pp. x, 217. $29.95.

In his book, Richard Ian Kimball provides readers with a well-written, comprehensive history of Mormon recreation from 1890 to 1940. During that period, American Protestants exhibited an unprecedented enthusiasm for organized sports. Despite their distinctive theology, the Mormons can arguably be classified as Protestants, and like comparatively mainstream Protestants such as the Presbyterians, Mormons worried a lot during the first half of the twentieth century about urbanization and its supposedly enervating effect on young people, particularly young men. To prevent them from going soft through sedentary living, the Mormons established what Kimball calls "muscular Mormonism," which strongly resembled the broader phenomenon of muscular Christianity. Muscular Mormons celebrated physical fitness, and they believed that sports in combination with moralism could overcome the deleterious effects of urbanization.

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