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Gavin Brown, Lecturer in Religious Education, Australian Catholic University

How ‘muscular Christianity’ strove to bring men back to religion – and what it can teach us today

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Most people recognise organisations such as the YMCA and the Boy Scouts, or events such as the Modern Olympic Games, summer camps and wilderness retreats.

Few, though, have ever heard of the movement from which they took their principal inspiration: muscular Christianity.

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