Religion and the Great Exhibition of 1851 PDF
Preview Religion and the Great Exhibition of 1851
RELIGION AND THE GREAT EXHIBITION OF 1851 This page intentionally left blank Religion and the Great Exhibition of 1851 GEOFFREY CANTOR 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,OxfordOX26DP OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwidein Oxford NewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto Withofficesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore SouthKorea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress intheUKandincertainothercountries PublishedintheUnitedStates byOxfordUniversityPressInc.,NewYork #GeoffreyCantor2011 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted DatabaserightOxfordUniversityPress(maker) Firstpublished2011 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, withoutthepriorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress, orasexpresslypermittedbylaw,orundertermsagreedwiththeappropriate reprographicsrightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproduction outsidethescopeoftheaboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment, OxfordUniversityPress,attheaddressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisbookinanyotherbindingorcover andyoumustimposethesameconditiononanyacquirer BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Dataavailable TypesetbySPIPublisherServices,Pondicherry,India PrintedinGreatBritain onacid-freepaperby MPGBooksGroup,BodminandKing’sLynn ISBN978–0–19–959667–6 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Contents ListofIllustrations vii ListofAbbreviations ix PrefaceandAcknowledgements x Introduction 1 Thereligiouslandscapein1851 10 1. FearsandDangers 19 Religionundersiege:thethreatfrom—andto—foreigners 21 Protestantismundersiege:thethreatfromCatholicism 27 Biblicalprophecies:theTowerofBabelandBelshazzar’sFeast 30 2. PreparingfortheExhibition 41 OrganizingtheExhibition 41 Theprizeessaycompetition 53 GuidestoLondonandtheExhibition 57 Theopeningceremony 63 3. ReligiousOrganizations 72 Religiousservicesandotherfacilitiesforvisitors 73 Publicationsdirectedatvisitors 80 Religioussocietiesasexhibitors 89 4. OnDisplay:TheBuilding,ItsContents,andEnglishProtestantism 102 TheCrystalPalace 102 Itscontents 110 Protestantismondisplay 124 5. ThingsSeenandUnseen 128 Thingsseen:‘TheEarthistheLord’s’ 129 Thingsunseen:‘LovenottheWorld’ 137 6. Catholic,Secular,andJewishPerceptions 144 RomanCatholicreactions 144 Theseculartemple 151 Jewishresponses 157 vi Contents 7. ParadiseRegained 166 CompensatingforBabel 166 Theunityofnations,progress,andthemillennium 169 Internationalismandpacifism 174 The1851PeaceCongress 183 8. TheExhibition:CloseandRetrospect 188 Theclosingceremonies 188 Religiousdiversity 196 Bibliography 205 Index 219 List of Illustrations 1. Handbill:‘EVERYEYESHALLSEEHIM’ 4 2. Frightenedoutoftheirwitsbyforeigners 22 3. MastheadofJohnBull 24 4. FatherGavazzi 31 5. JohnMartin’spowerfulevocationofBelshazzar’sFeast 32 6. BanquetattheMansionHouseon21March1851 42 7. JosephVanHalle’slaceandgoldembroidery 51 8. Emerton’sMoralandReligiousGuide 56 9. ChristianVisitor’sHand-book 59 10. SanscritrenditionofMartinTupper’sHymnforAllNations 61 11. MemorialoftheGreatExhibition 62 12. TheArchbishopofCanterbury’sbenediction 65 13. TheArchbishopinprocessionfollowingtheopeningceremony 67 14. ExeterHall,1841 79 15. AnAddresstoForeigners—inDutch 82 16. AdvertisementplacedbytheReligiousTractSocietyinthe OfficialDescriptiveandIllustratedCatalogue 85 17. TheReligiousTractSociety’sstandinsidetheCrystalPalace 91 18. Mapofgroundfloor,west,oftheCrystalPalace 94 19. BibleondisplayinClassXVII 97 20. TheCrystalPalace 103 21. Workmenconstructingthebuilding 105 22. MedievalCourt 113 23. CustodiafromLimaCathedral 115 24. Koh-i-noordiamond 117 25. PrinceAlbert’smodellodginghouse 120 26. CrucifixondisplayintheFrenchsection 121 27. FrancisWalter’smoralandreligiousclock 122 viii ListofIllustrations 28. FrontispieceofOfficialDescriptiveandIllustratedCatalogue 131 29. TitlepageoftheOfficialCatalogue 132 30. LordAshley 139 31. TestimonialpresentedtoSirMosesMontefiore 163 32. Staffel’scalculatingmachine 164 33. TheGreekSlave 178 34. Adisplayofguns 180 35. DavidBrewsteraddressingthePeaceCongressinExeterHall 183 List of Abbreviations BFBS BritishandForeignBibleSociety CWCC CentralWorkingClassesCommittee FCEC ForeignConferenceandEvangelisationCommittee RTS ReligiousTractSociety SPCK SocietyforPromotingChristianKnowledge YMCA YoungMen’sChristianAssociation
The list of books you might like
