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The Problem of Pleasure - Sport, Recreation and the Crisis of Victorian Religion (Hardcover)
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The Problem of Pleasure - Sport, Recreation and the Crisis of Victorian Religion (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Modern British Religious History
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The book combines intellectual, cultural and social history to
address a major area of encounter between Christianity and British
culture: the world of leisure. 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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