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Exhibiting Religion: Colonialism and Spectacle at International Expositions, 1851 - 1893
John P. Burris
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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 as forums in which the central elements of a field of religion came into contact with one another. John Burris argues that comparative religion was the focal point for early attempts at comparative culture and that both were defined more by the intercultural politics and material exchanges of colonialism than by the spirit of objective intellectual inquiry. Equally a work of American and British religious history and a cultural history of the emerging field of religion, this book offers definitive theoretical insights into the discipline of religious studies in its early formation.
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Cover Page
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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CONTENTS
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List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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1 International Expositions in Historical Context
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2 Britain’s Great Exhibition: Ideology Materialized
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3 Social Evolutionism and International Expositions: A Cultural History
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4 Exhibitionism, American Style
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5 Exhibiting Religion at Chicago’s Columbian Exposition
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Conclusion: A Parliament for the World’s Religions?
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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Published: 2001
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
- 9780813920832 (hardcover)