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

Dominic Erdozain

doi:10.1017/9781846157912

The Problem of Pleasure

Sport, Recreation and the Crisis of Victorian Religion

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Dominic Erdozain, King's College London

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: March 2023
Print publication year:: 2010
Online ISBN:: 9781846157912
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781846157912

Subjects:: Judaism, Religion, Religion: General Interest
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.

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The Problem of Pleasure

Sport, Recreation and the Crisis of Victorian Religion

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-vii

List of Illustrations
pp viii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-ix

Abbreviations and Note on Conventions
pp x-x

Introduction
pp 1-40

1 - ‘Born Free and Everywhere in Chains’: Evangelicalism and the Problem of Pleasure
pp 41-84

2 - Romanticism With Boots on: The Virtues of Sport
pp 85-112

3 - Renegotiating the Secular: The Coming of Recreation to the Mid-Victorian Religious World
pp 113-153

4 - ‘We are all Cyclists Now’: Applying the Pleasure Principle
pp 154-198

5 - Sport and the Secularisation of Late-Victorian Youth Ministry
pp 199-229

6 - Contesting the Sacred: The Late-Victorian Church and the ‘Gospel of Amusement’
pp 230-270

Conclusion
pp 271-282

Bibliography
pp 283-294

Index
pp 295-303

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