| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.4

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Clifford Putney. Muscular Christianity: Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880–1920. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2001. Pp. x, 300. $39.95.

When professional football players gather for prayer in the middle of the field at the conclusion of a game, or a basketball star sports a WWJD bracelet, it is difficult to imagine that organized sports were anathema to American Protestants during the antebellum period. But as Clifford Putney's fascinating study demonstrates, Protestants in the postbellum period quickly overcame their early inhibitions and soon embraced manliness as a crucial way of nurturing godliness, equipping Protestant men to meet the challenges of modernity, and, perhaps most important, saving the church from the devastating effects of effeminacy. . . .

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