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The Problem of Pleasure: Sport, Recreation and the Crisis of Victorian Religion
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- English
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- 9781843835288
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- The Problem of Pleasure
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This book traces the rise and fall of the evangelical movement, the powerhouse of Victorian religion, via its preoccupation with pleasure. Victorian evangelicalism demonstrated an ability to excite the affections but also a corresponding suspicion of worldly pleasures. Suspicion developed into hostility, and a movement premised on freedom became coercive and alienating. The crisis of Victorian religion began. It is generally held that the mid-Victorian turn to recreation and sport solved the problem, 'justifying God to the people' through cricket, cycling and football. This book argues otherwise - that the problem of pleasure was inflamed by the ecclesiastical remedy. The problem of overdrawn boundaries between church and world gave way to a new and subtle confusion of gospel and culture. Historians have praised the mood of engagement but the costs were profound. In fact, sport became the perfect vehicle for that humanistic, 'unmystical' morality that defines the secularity of the twentieth century. Secularisation did t wait for the Dionysian rebellions of the 1960s: it emerged - almost a hundred years earlier - in the Victorian transformation of religion into ethics. Central to the process was the problem of pleasure. DOMINIC ERDOZAIN is Lecturer in the History of Christianity, King's College London
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Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN-10
1843835282
ISBN-13
9781843835288
eBay Product ID (ePID)
106165144
Dimensions
Weight
862g
Height
234mm
Width
163mm
Additional Product Features
FIRST Published
2010
Place of Publication
Woodbridge
Spine
25mm
Issn
1464-6625
Series Part/Volume Number
V. 22
Series Title
Studies in Modern British Religious History
Content Note
6, 6 Black and White
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Date of Publication
18/02/2010
Format Details
Cloth over Boards
Subject
Christian History & Denominations
Imprint
The Boydell Press
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Genre
Christian History & Denominations
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