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The Decay of Religious Pain
From: Science Museum
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Emma Mason |
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION |
Many developments in Victorian Britain tended towards a drastic revision of
the status of pain in Christian belief. This was a Protestant country, in
which antagonism to old ideas of fleshly mortification flourished and low-church militants targeted cruelty as much as self-indulgence. However dissenters, such as the Anglo-Catholic Edward Pusey, felt at ease with the acceptance of suffering. In this feature, based on a paper delivered at the "Locating the Victorians" conference in July 2001, Emma Mason of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, discusses the significance of religious pain in the Victorian era and suggests that while the idea of it became increasingly unpopular, Christianity remained invested in it as a way of underlining the reality of its diminishing faith. |
Emma Mason discusses the decay of religious pain. |
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