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• Popular Amusements (Cincinnati: Jennings and Pye; New York: Eaton and Mains, c1869), by J. T. Crane (HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)
• Popular Amusements (Cincinnati: Hitchcock and Walden; New York: Carlton and Lanahan, 1870), by J. T. Crane (page images at MOA)
• Tired Church Members, by Anna Bartlett Warner (Gutenberg text)
• Popular amusements (Henry Altemus, 1896), by Henry Ward Beecher (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise against dicing, dancing, plays, and interludes. With other idle pastimes. (Reprinted from the Shakespeare society, 1843), by John Northbrooke and John Payne Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Popular amusements. (Hitchcock and Walden;, 1870), by J. T. Crane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christianity and amusements (Association Press, 1915), by Richard Henry Edwards (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Amusement a force in Christian training. (W. H. Young, 1867), by Marvin R. Vincent (page images at HathiTrust)
• An address to persons of fashion, containing some particulars relating to balls: and a few occasional hints concerning play-houses, card-tables, xc., in which is introduced the character of Lucinda, a lady of the very best fashion, and of most extraordinary piety ... (Printed for G. Keith, and sold by J. Robson [etc], 1761), by Richard Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Across the dead line of amusements (Fleming H. Revell Co., 1912), by Henry Wellington Stough (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Letters to a friend, on fashionable amusements (Printed for L.B. Seeley and Son, 1825), by Benevolus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amusements and the Christian life in the primitive church and in our day. (Presbyterian board of publication, 1884), by Lachlin Cummings Vass (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amusement; a force in Christian training. Four discourses (W. H. Young, 1867), by Marvin R. Vincent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three dialogues on the amusements of clergymen ... (B. and J. White, 1796), by William Gilpin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Worldly amusements : how to decide, or, the benefit of the doubt (Griffith & Rowland Press, 1909), by William Wistar Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The expediency of preaching against the amusements of the world (Duncan and Malcolm, 1841), by Henry Woodward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le ricreazioni regolate (Tip. di C. Puccinelli, 1835), by Carlo Gregorio Rosignoli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wild oats (Arbuthnot Bros., 1897), by Joshua Denovan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tanz und Theaterbesuch. Je zwei Vorträge hierüber, in vier dazu veranstalteten Erbauungsstunden gehalten... (Lutherischer Concordia Verlag, 1888), by C. F. W. Walther and John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tanz und Theaterbesuch. Je zwei Vorträge hierüber, in vier dazu veranstalteten Erbauungsstunden gehalten... (Lutherischer Concordia Verlag, 1885), by C. F. W. Walther (page images at HathiTrust)
• Better not; a discussion of certain social customs. (Funk & Wagnalls, 1891), by John Heyl Vincent (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discourse at Amoskeag Fall, 1739 (Manchester Historic Association, 1908), by Joseph Seccombe and Fred W. Lamb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Popular amusements. (Hitchcock and Walden;, 1869), by J. T. Crane (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discourse on the impropriety of Christians dancing : preached at Port Huron, March 7th, 1858. (H. S. Potter, 1858), by Seth Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Primary platform of Methodism; or, Exposition of the general rules. (Pub. by the Author and Company, and sold by the Southern Methodist Book Concern, 1851), by M. M. Henkle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of the most illustrious and pious Armand de Bourbon, prince of Conti : with a short account of his life : collected and translated from the French : to which are added some other pieces, and a discourse of Christian perfection, by the Archbishop of Cambray, never before published. (Printed by C.P. for W. Bray ..., 1711), by Armand de Bourbon Conti (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Christian's relation to amusements and the world : a sermon (s.n.], 1904), by J. Wilbur Chapman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tired church members (New York : R. Carter, 1881., 1881), by Anna Bartlett Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Popular Amusements, by J. T. Crane, contrib. by Edmund S. Janes (Gutenberg ebook)
• Amusement: A Force in Christian Training, by Marvin R. Vincent (Gutenberg ebook)

• Dialogues on various subjects. (Published by T. Cadell and W. Davies ..., 1807), by William Gilpin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christian recreation and unchristian amusement (Published by E.D. Barker, 1858), by Theodore L. Cuyler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tanz und Theaterbesuch : Je zwei freie vorträge hierüber, in vier dazu veranstalteten erbauungsstunden gehalten ... (Lutherischer Concordia-verlag, 1886), by C. F. W. Walther (page images at HathiTrust)
• Entertainments a menace to the Christian church (Holiness Movement Pub. House, 1908), by H. R. McConnell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Trattato de' giochi e de' divertimenti permessi, o proibiti ai cristiani. (Presso Michel' Angelo Barbiellini ..., 1768) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Matière de morale (1732), by M. l'abbé Desfontaines (page images at HathiTrust)
• A short and profitable treatise, of lavvfull and vnlavvfull recreations and of the right vse and abuse of those that are lavvefull. Written by M. Dudley Fenner, Preacher of the Word of God in Midlebrugh [sic]. 1587. (Imprinted at Midleburgh : By Richard Schilders, 1590), by Dudley Fenner (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Of small vices. The destruction. (Imprinted at London : By Ihon Kyngston, for Henry Kirckham, [ca. 1575]), by Richard Rice and Robert Crowley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A testimony against several prophane and superstitious customs now practised by some in New-England the evil whereof is evinced from the Holy Scriptures and from the writings both of ancient and modern divines / by Increase Mather. (London : [s.n.], 1687), by Increase Mather (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Between Dancing and Writing: The Practice of Religious Studies (New York: Fordham University Press, 2004), by Kimerer L. LaMothe (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• An Account of the Trial of Social Dance, by George Davis (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Dancers and Dancing: A Calm and Rational View of the Dancing Question, by J. M. Hubbert (HTML and page images at LOC)
• From the Ball-Room to Hell (Chicago: The Henry Publishing Co., c1892), by Thomas A. Faulkner
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• From the Ball-Room to Hell (c1894), by Thomas A. Faulkner (page images at HathiTrust)
• From the Ball-Room to Hell (illustrated edition; ca. 1920), by Thomas A. Faulkner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• May Christians Dance?, by James H. Brookes (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Modern Dances, by Luigi Sartori (HTML and page images at LOC)
• A treatise against dicing, dancing, plays, and interludes. With other idle pastimes. (Reprinted from the Shakespeare society, 1843), by John Northbrooke and John Payne Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ban of the Bori; demons and demon-dancing in West and North Africa (Heath, Cranton & Ouseley Ltd., 1914), by A. J. N. Tremearne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Istorii͡a tant͡sev. (S.-Peterburg, 1913), by S N Khudekov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dancing as an amusement for Christians. A sermon, delivered in the Brainerd Presbyterian church, New-York, Feb. 14, 1847, and repeated, by request, Feb. 28. (Printed by Leavitt, Trow & company, 1847), by Asa D. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Srpske narodne igre (Štampano u Drž. štampariji Kraljevine Sbrije, 1907), by Tihomir R. Đorđević (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The dance of modern society. : (Funk & Wagnalls, 1884), by William Cleaver Wilkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Opfertanz des ägyptischen Königs (1912), by Hermann Kees (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Amusements in the light of reason, history, and revelation. (Walden and Stowe;, 1882), by Samuel Milton Vernon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tänze der naturvölker; ein deutungsversuch primitiver tanzkulte und kultgebräuche (A. Fürstner, 1921), by Jaap Kool and G. O. Roesner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The modern pleasure dance is it an innocent and an appropriate amusement? : outline of a sermon (s.n.], 1859), by George Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tanz und Theaterbesuch. Je zwei Vorträge hierüber, in vier dazu veranstalteten Erbauungsstunden gehalten... (Lutherischer Concordia Verlag, 1885), by C. F. W. Walther (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the incompatibility of theater-going and dancing with membership in the Christian church an address of the clergy of the Convocation of the Valley of Virginia to the people of their respective parishes. (Office of Leighten Publications, 1872), by C. W. Andrews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geder oulom (880-06 Ṿarsha : Buberesh Tursh, 1894., 1894), by ha-Kohen Israel Meir (page images at HathiTrust)
• From the ball-room to hell. (The Henry Publishing Co., 1892), by Thomas A. Faulkner (page images at HathiTrust)
• De saltationibus Graecorum capita quinque (A. Töpelmann (vormals J. Ricker), 1913), by Kurt Latte (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dialogo sopra le antiche saltazioni (s.n., in the 1760s), by Pierantonio Gaetani (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gedeʺ olamʺ ([Ḥ. mo. l.], 1888), by ha-Kohen Israel Meir (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discourse on dancing : delivered in the Central Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati. (Cincinnati : The Presbyterian Book Depository, and W. H. Moore, 1847., 1847), by N. L. Rice (page images at HathiTrust)
• Progressive democracy in religion : or, Rejoinder of "Clericus" to "Scrutator" (Schenectady : Biggs, Printer, 1848., 1848), by Alexander Gunn and George Hornell Thacher (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter to the Synod of Albany, on the subject of dancing : wherein is discussed the question, Ought the Synod to take action on this subject which shall bind the conscience of the church? (Albany : Printed by Joel Munsell, 1847., 1847), by Alexander Gunn and George Hornell Thacher (page images at HathiTrust)

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