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Author Burris, John P., author.

Title Exhibiting religion : colonialism and spectacle at international expositions, 1851-1893 / John P. Burris.

Publication Info. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, [2001]
©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 211 pages) : illustrations
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Series Studies in religion and culture
Studies in religion and culture (Charlottesville, Va.)
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-206) and index.
Contents International expositions in historical context -- Britain's Great Exhibition : ideology materialized -- Social evolutionism and international expositions : a cultural history -- Exhibitionism, American style -- Exhibiting religion at Chicago's Columbian Exposition -- Conclusion : a parliament for the world's religions?
Summary "World's Fairs contributed mightily to defining a relationship between religion and the wider world of human culture. Even at the level of popular culture found on the midways of the earliest international expositions - where Victorian ladies gawked at displays of non-Western, "primitive" life - the concept of religion as an independent field of study began to take hold in public consciousness. The World's Parliament of Religions at the Chicago exposition of 1893 did as much as any other single event to introduce the idea that religion could be viewed as simply one concern among many within the rapidly diversifying modern lifestyle."
A chronicle of the emergence and development of religion as a field of intellectual inquiry, Exhibiting Religion: Colonialism and Spectacle at International Expositions, 1851-1893 is an extensive survey of world's fairs from the inaugural Great Exhibition in London to the Chicago Columbian Exposition and World's Parliament of Religions. As the first broad gatherings of people from across the world, these events were pivotal forums in which the central elements of a field of religion came into contact with one another.
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2024. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
Note All rights reserved.
Subject Religion -- Study and teaching -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Exhibitions -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Religion -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Exhibitions -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies, issuing body.
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. http://www.humanitiesebook.org/
ISBN 0813920833 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780813920832 (hardcover)
Standard No. heb40178 hdl

 
    
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