Season 4 · Episode 23
S4E12: A Muscular Christianity
The Colonial Department · The Colonial Department
July 28, 202313m 54s
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Show Notes
<html><p>Civilize? Christianize? As the Americans move into their new colony, they pack an unlikely weapon in their mission to take over the Philippines: sports!</p><p><br/></p><p>Follow us on IG: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecolonialdept/" target="_blank">@thecolonialdept</a></p><p>Email us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a></p><p><br/></p><p>References:</p><p>Gems, Gerald R. (2016). <em>Sport and the American Occupation of the Philippines: Bats, Balls, and Bayonets. </em>Lexington Books.</p><p>Putz, Paul (31 January 2022). “Muscular Christianity and Moral Formation Through Sports.” <em>Faith & Sports. </em>Truett Seminary of Baylor University. <a href="https://blogs.baylor.edu/faithsports/2022/01/31/muscular-christianity-and-moral-formation-through-sports/" target="_blank">https://blogs.baylor.edu/faithsports/2022/01/31/muscular-christianity-and-moral-formation-through-sports/</a></p><p><em>Report on the YWCA and the YMCA in the Philippine Islands, 1930 </em>(1930)<em>. </em>Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History (File — Box: 4, Reel: 354, microdex: 8), Smith College Special Collections. <a href="https://findingaids.smith.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/170680" target="_blank">https://findingaids.smith.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/170680</a></p><p>Brosas, Arturo (4 January 2023). “What is Texas Gamefowl Chicken?” <em>Agraryo.com </em><a href="https://agraryo.com/poultry/what-is-texas-gamefowl-chicken/" target="_blank">https://agraryo.com/poultry/what-is-texas-gamefowl-chicken/</a></p><p>Kramer, Paul (2014). “Colonial Crossings: Prostitution, Disease, and the Boundaries of Empire During the Philippine-American War.” In <em>Body and Nation: The Global Realm of US Body Politics in the Twentieth Century </em>(Rosenberg, E. and Fitzpatrick S., eds), Duke University Press.</p><p>Bartholomew, Rafe (2010). <em>Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin’ in Flip-Flops and the Philippines’ Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball. </em>New American Library.</p><p>Anderson, Warwick (2006). <em>Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines. </em>Ateneo de Manila Press.<br/><br/></p></html>