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The Great Victorian Sacrilege: Preachers, Politics and The Passion, 1879-1884

The Great Victorian Sacrilege: Preachers, Politics and The Passion, 1879-1884

Nielsen, Alan

Paperback

General ChristianityGeneral World HistoryTheater History

ISBN10: 0786473878
ISBN13: 9780786473878
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Feb 6 2013
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

What happens when freedom of artistic expression offends freedom of religion? A great controversy arose when America's first professional Passion play, staged in San Francisco in 1879, was pronounced a sacrilege by Protestant ministers (Salmi Morse's play, The Passion, was in reality a pious description of the Gospel story). This work shows that Morse and his play were victims of the Protestant church's struggle to maintain power during the late 1800s, a time when America was changing into a more urban nation. This saga of a society's attempt to control immoralart by government intervention is also a disconcerting look at how easily artistic freedom can be sacrificed on the altar of political expediency.

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