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Exhibiting Religion: Colonialism and Spectacle at International Expositions, 1851-1893 (Studies in Religion and Culture)
John P. Burris
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Description for Exhibiting Religion: Colonialism and Spectacle at International Expositions, 1851-1893 (Studies in Religion and Culture)
Hardcover. A chronicle of the emergence and development of religion as a field of intellectual inquiry, this volume 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. Series: Studies in Religion and Culture. Num Pages: 240 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: HBT; HRAB; HRAC; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 166 x 24. Weight in Grams: 548.
World's fairs contributed mightily to defining a relationship between religion and the wider world of human culture. Even at the base 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 amoung many within the rapidly ... Read more
World's fairs contributed mightily to defining a relationship between religion and the wider world of human culture. Even at the base 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 amoung many within the rapidly ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Religion and Culture
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813920832
SKU
V9780813920832
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About John P. Burris
John P. Burris is Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Stetson University and the editor of Reflections in the Mirror of Religion.
Reviews for Exhibiting Religion: Colonialism and Spectacle at International Expositions, 1851-1893 (Studies in Religion and Culture)
Exhibiting Religion is authoritative and will eagerly be read by all those interested in the relationship between the concept of religion and the geopolitics of modernity. This book is significantly different from virtually all treatments of such events as the World's Parliament, since the norm among contemporary scholars is to celebrate it uncritically rather than thoroughly historicize it, as John ... Read more