Secrecy: Silence, Power, and Religion
Intro -- Contents -- Preface: Secrecy, the Human Dress -- Introduction: The Vestment of Power -- Chapter 1. The Adornment of Silence/Secrecy and Symbolic Power in American Freemasonry -- Chapter 2. The Secret Doctrine/The Advertisement of the Secret in the Theosophical Society and the Esoteric Secti...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Chicago
University of Chicago Press
2021
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Secrecy
/ Politics
/ Religion
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| Further subjects: | B
Secrecy-Religious aspects
B Secret societies-Religious aspects B Electronic books |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Preface: Secrecy, the Human Dress -- Introduction: The Vestment of Power -- Chapter 1. The Adornment of Silence/Secrecy and Symbolic Power in American Freemasonry -- Chapter 2. The Secret Doctrine/The Advertisement of the Secret in the Theosophical Society and the Esoteric Section -- Chapter 3. The Seduction of the Secret/Eros and Magic in Twentieth-Century Europe -- Chapter 4. Secrecy and Social Resistance/The Five-Percenters and the Arts of Subversive Bricolage -- Chapter 5. The Terror of Secrecy/Racism, Masculinity, and Violence in the Late Brüder Schweigen -- Chapter 6. The Third Wall of Fire/Scientology and the Study of Secrecy as an Historical Process -- Conclusions: The Science of the Hidden/Secrecy and the Critical Study of Religion in an Age of Surveillance -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (268 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-0-226-74678-4 |
