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Author : Larissa P. Watkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Reference
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118011498
Author : Mark A. Tabbert
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814783023
An overview of the mysterious history of the Freemasons and their presence in American society With over four million members worldwide, and two million in the U.S., Freemasonry is the largest fraternal organization in the world. Published in conjunction with the National Heritage Museum, this extravagantly illustrated volume offers an overview of Freemasonry’s origins in seventeenth-century Scotland and England before exploring its evolving role in American history, from the Revolution through the labor and civil rights movements, and into the twenty-first century. American Freemasons explores some of the causes for the rise and fall of membership in the fraternity and why it has attracted men in such large numbers for centuries. American Freemasons is the perfect introduction to understanding a society that, while shrouded in mystery, has played an integral role in the lives and communities of millions of Americans. Copublished with the National Heritage Museum.
Author : Craig Heimbichner,Adam Parfrey
Publisher : Feral House
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781936239153
"Adam Parfrey is one of the nation's most provocative publishers."—Seattle Weekly "Secret society historian Craig Heimbichner follows the Middle Path to wisdom. He works the graveyard shift in the secret lodge."—Joan d'Arc, Paranoia magazine Secret societies—now a staple of bestseller novels—are pictured as sinister cults that use hooded albinos to menace truth-seekers. Some conspiracy books claim that fraternal orders are the work of serpentine aliens and interbred humans who wish to supplant earth of its energy, and later, its very existence. On the other side of the aisle, books by high-ranked Freemasons—skeptical in tone but no less partisan in approach—protect their organization's public image by denying the existence of its most contentious ideas. Ritual America reveals the biggest secret of them all: that the influence of fraternal brotherhoods on this country is vast, fundamental, and hidden in plain view. In the early twentieth century, as many as one-third of America belonged to a secret society. And though fezzes and tiny car parades are almost a thing of the past, the Gnostic beliefs of Masonic orders are now so much a part of the American mind that the surrounding pomp and circumstance has become faintly unnecessary. The authors of Ritual America contextualize hundreds of rare and many never-before printed images with entertaining and far-reaching commentary, making an esoteric subject provocative, exciting, and approachable. Adam Parfrey is the author of Cult Rapture: Revelations of the Apocalyptic Mind and It's a Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, the Postwar Pulps. He is editor of the influential Apocalypse Culture series Love, Sex, Fear Death: The Inside Story of the Process Church of the Final Judgment. Craig Heimbichner has recently appeared on a National Geographic documentary about the Bohemian Grove, contributed to the Feral House compilation Secret and Suppressed II, and wrote about the famous occult order the O.T.O. in Blood and Altar.
Author : Larissa Watkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:946920607
Author : Larissa P. Watkins,S. Brent Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Reference
ISBN : STANFORD:36105120997189
Author : Robert D. Fleck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015078800953
"Written to mark Oak Knoll Press's thirtieth anniversary, Books about Books is a comprehensive history and bibliography of the press, from its beginning in 1978 through the fall of 2008. Bob Fleck, founder, owner, and president of the Press, tells the story of his adventures in publishing. Bob decided to leave the field of chemical engineering in 1976 to start Oak Knoll Books, an antiquarian bookseller specializing in books about books. Two years later, he started publishing in the same field, beginning with a reprint of Bigmore and Wyman's A Bibliography of Printing. Oak Knoll Press has operated out of several buildings and under several publishing directors, but in the thirty years of its existence, it has developed a reputation for excellence in the field of books about books. The Press has published 320 books to date and is still going strong." "The book begins with a fifty-page history of the press, which is well illustrated with more than fifty images. The history is followed by the bibliography, which lists 320 books in order of publication. Each entry includes the author, title, edition, and a brief physical description, as well as a paragraph describing the contents of the book. Any subsequent reprints are also listed. The bibliography includes about twenty full-page images of Oak Knoll Press publications. Books about Books is sure to be a useful tool for all of those wishing to expand their Oak Knoll Press collection or understand individual titles in the context of the whole."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Bibliographical Society of America
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UCSC:32106020978075
Author : Kevin L. Cope,Robert C. Leitz
Publisher : AMS Press
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0404622313
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Canada
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131533734
Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Bibliographical literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025908224
Author : J. Scott Kenney
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771121965
Secret societies are becoming increasingly controversial—thrust into public awareness by popular books, films, the Internet, and a host of recent documentaries. In academia, this exposure finds a parallel in the proliferation of research, institutes, and conferences. Yet the media depictions tend to be caricatures, a playing to pervasive stereotypes for public consumption, while the academic stress historical and philological matters. Indeed, to the extent a sociological focus exists, it largely emphasizes the roles these groups played in social history. And for the societies’ members themselves, there has been a paucity of work on the contemporary meaning of these groups—a neglect made mystifying by the vast social changes that have taken place over the past century. In this study, and for the first time by any scholar, Kenney moves beyond history and applies the methods and theoretical tools of contemporary sociology to study the lived world of freemasons in today’s society. To provide a clear portrait of the patterned experiences of contemporary freemasons and the issues faced by “the Craft” today, Kenney draws on qualitative data from three primary sources: (1) extensive interviews with 121 contemporary freemasons in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia; (2) video footage shot for a feature film on contemporary freemasonry; and (3) his observations and experiences in nearly fifteen years as a freemason. Brought to Light provides a highly original contribution to sociology, Masonic scholarship, and the social sciences generally.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Books
ISBN : UOM:39015066027981
Every 3rd issue is a quarterly cumulation.
Author : Daniel W. Patterson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807837535
A thousand unique gravestones cluster around old Presbyterian churches in the piedmont of the two Carolinas and in central Pennsylvania. Most are the vulnerable legacy of three generations of the Bigham family, Scotch Irish stonecutters whose workshop near Charlotte created the earliest surviving art of British settlers in the region. In The True Image, Daniel Patterson documents the craftsmanship of this group and the current appearance of the stones. In two hundred of his photographs, he records these stones for future generations and compares their iconography and inscriptions with those of other early monuments in the United States, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. Combining his reading of the stones with historical records, previous scholarship, and rich oral lore, Patterson throws new light on the complex culture and experience of the Scotch Irish in America. In so doing, he explores the bright and the dark sides of how they coped with challenges such as backwoods conditions, religious upheavals, war, political conflicts, slavery, and land speculation. He shows that headstones, resting quietly in old graveyards, can reveal fresh insights into the character and history of an influential immigrant group.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1042 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Books
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123890324
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : American newspapers
ISBN : WISC:89064889959
