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1. Bearing Light: Flame Relays and the Struggle for the Olympic Movement

   Edited by John J. Macaloon

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   In recent decades, five to ten times as many persons have turned out for the Olympic flame relay as have watched Olympic sports contests live. Flame Relays and the Struggle for the Olympic Movement: Bearing Light, the first anthropological analysis of the contemporary torch relay, exposes and...

   To Be Published February 12th 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