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 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 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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