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The Problem of Pleasure

Sport, Recreation and the Crisis of Victorian Religion [Hardback]

by Dominic Erdozain

    • Author

      Dominic Erdozain

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Boydell & Brewer Ltd

    • Published

      February 2010

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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 not 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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      • Author

        Dominic Erdozain

      • Book Format

        Hardback

      • Publisher

        Boydell & Brewer Ltd

      • Published

        February 2010

      • Weight

        632g

      • Page Count

        322

      • Dimensions

        163 x 234 x 26 mm

      • ISBN

        9781843835288

      • ISBN-10

        1843835282

      • Eden Code

        3134955

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      • Author/Creator: Dominic Erdozain

      • ISBN: 9781843835288

      • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

      • Release Date: February 2010

      • Weight: 632g

      • Dimensions: 163 x 234 x 26 mm

      • Eden Code: 3134955

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