RT Book
T1 Secrecy: Silence, Power, and Religion
A1 Urban, Hugh B. 1968-
LA English
PP Chicago
PB University of Chicago Press
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1744816948
AB 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.
OP 268
NO Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
CN 299
SN 978-0-226-74678-4
K1 Secret societies-Religious aspects
K1 Secrecy-Religious aspects
K1 Electronic books