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The problem of pleasure : sport, recreation, and the crisis of Victorian religion /
This title traces the rise and fall of the evangelical movement, the powerhouse of Victorian religion, via its preoccupation with pleasure.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY :
Boydell Press,
2010.
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| Series: | Studies in modern British religious history ;
v. 22. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- "Born free and everywhere in chains" : evangelicalism and the problem of pleasure
- Romanticism with boots on : the virtues of sport
- Renegotiating 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 church and the "Gospel of Amusement."