The Problem of Pleasure - Sport, Recreation and the Crisis of Victorian Religion

The book combines intellectual, cultural and social history to address a major area of encounter between Christianity and British culture: the world of leisure.

List of contents

Introduction
'Born Free and Everywhere in Chains': Evangelicalism and the Problem of Pleasure
Romanticism with Boots On: The Virtues of Sport
Negotiating the Secular: the Coming of Recreation to the mid-Victorian Religious World
'We Are All Cyclists Now': Applying the Pleasure Principle
Sport and the Secularisation of late-Victorian Youth Ministry
Contesting the Sacred: the late-Victorian Church and the 'Gospel of Amusement'

Summary

The book combines intellectual, cultural and social history to address a major area of encounter between Christianity and British culture: the world of leisure.

Product details

• Authors: Dominic Erdozain
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.02.2010
• EAN: 9781843835288
• ISBN: 978-1-84383-528-8
• No. of pages: 322
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 234 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 862 g
• Series: Studies in Modern British Reli; Studies in Modern British Religious History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / History, Religion - Commentaries / Reference