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

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.

Product details

• Authors: Dominic Erdozain
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2010
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 236 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 828 g
• Series: Studies in Modern British Reli
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works