Download or read book Religion and the Great Exhibition of 1851 written by G. N. Cantor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on sermons and extensive source material from the mid-Victorian religious press, this innovative reappraisal of the Great Exhibition of 1851 shows that it was widely understood by contemporaries to possess a religious dimension and that it generated controversy among religious groups.