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1. Flame Relays and the Struggle for the Olympic Movement

   Bearing Light

   Edited by John J. Macaloon

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   The Flame Relay and the Olympic Movement is the first book-length scholarly study in English of the contemporary Olympic flame relay. Reporting for the first time on years of intensive ethnographic research and organizational intervention, John J. MacAloon literally follows the Olympic flame...

   To Be Published February 9th 2013 by Routledge
2. Muscular Christianity and the Colonial and Post-Colonial World

   Edited by John J. Macaloon

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   This Volume explores the enormous impact the ethos of Muscular Christianity has had an on modern civil society in English-speaking nations and among the peoples they colonized. First codified by British Christian Socialists in the mid-nineteenth century, explicitly religious forms of the ideology...

   Published February 22nd 2009 by Routledge
3. This Great Symbol

   Pierre de Coubertin and the Origins of the Modern Olympic Games

   By John J. Macaloon

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   This Great Symbol is the definitive study of the origins of the modern Olympic Games and of their founder, Pierre de Coubertin, whose ideological stamp the Olympics still bear. Behind this fascinating blend of biography and history lies an impressive framework of cultural, social, and psychological...

   Published February 19th 2009 by Routledge