Exhibiting Religion

Colonialism and Spectacle at International Expositions, 1851-1893
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8139-2083-2
Verlag: University of Virginia Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 543 g

Reihe: Studies in Religion & Culture

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 diversifying modern lifestyle. 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. As the first broad gatherings of people from across the world, these events were pivotal as forums in which the central elements of a field of religion came into contact with one another.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burris, John P

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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?.

Über Autor(innen)

John P. Burris is Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Stetson University and the editor of Reflections in the Mirror of Religion.