The Problem of Pleasure Sport Recreation and the Crisis of Victorian Religion Studies in Modern British Religious History vol 22 1st Edition by Dominic Erdozain ISBN 1846157919 9781846157912

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ISBN 10: 1846157919 
ISBN 13: 9781846157912
Author: Dominic Erdozain

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.

The Problem of Pleasure Sport Recreation and the Crisis of Victorian Religion Studies in Modern British Religious History vol 22 1st Table of contents:

1 ‘Born Free and Everywhere in Chains’: Evangelicalism and the Problem of Pleasure
2 Romanticism with Boots On: The Virtues of Sport
3 Renegotiating the Secular: The Coming of Recreation to the Mid-Victorian Religious World
4 ‘We Are All Cyclists Now’: Applying the Pleasure Principle
5 Sport and the Secularisation of Late-Victorian Youth Ministry
6 Contesting the Sacred: The Late-Victorian Church and the ‘Gospel of Amusement’

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