Em nome do Pai do Filho e do Espírito Ginástico: práticas corporais, masculinidades e religiosidade nos Exploradores de Dom Bosco na Argentina de início do século XX

The salesians schools settled in Argentina in the end of the XIX century and they have been growing until the present time. Among their educational proposals the corporal question was constituted in a central problem. The government of the body and, especially, the construction of certain type of masculinity was one of the central axes of its proposal. To build masculine and virile bodies, the Explorers of Don Bosco were "invented" in 1915. This experience (gymnastics, marches, walks, trips, etc.) joined poor children and youths with the purpose of modeling their bodies and their souls by a co...

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