{"product_id":"the-problem-of-pleasure-dominic-erdozain-9781843835288","title":"The Problem of Pleasure: Sport, Recreation and the Crisis of Victorian Religion","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e DOMINIC ERDOZAIN is Lecturer in the History of Christianity, King's College London\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dominic Erdozain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1843835282\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781843835288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Boydell Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/18\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.40w x 1.00d","brand":"Dominic Erdozain","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46401424359679,"sku":"9781843835288","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e07a60b2-f1ee-4144-bbfc-e8ac128fab9f.jpg?v=1733887512","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-problem-of-pleasure-dominic-erdozain-9781843835288","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}