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Amy Koehlinger

Amy Koehlinger is an associate professor in the School of History, Philosophy and Religion at Oregon State University. She is the author of The New Nuns: Racial Justice and Religious Reform in the 1960s.

Articles By Amy Koehlinger
An informal boxing match sometime between 1890 and 1910 (Detroit Publishing Co., P., retrieved from the Library of Congress)
Faith Short Take
Why boxing was the most Catholic sport for almost 100 years
Amy KoehlingerMarch 08, 2019
As late as the 1970s, boxing saturated U.S. Catholic culture. It reinforced Catholic ideas about the redemptive value of physical suffering; it also offered a powerful form of assimilation to male Catholic immigrants.