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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| Type de support: | Électronique Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Service de livraison Subito: | Commander maintenant. |
| Vérifier la disponibilité: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Publié: |
Chicago
University of Chicago Press
2021
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| Dans: | Année: 2021 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Secret
/ Politique
/ Religion
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| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Secrecy-Religious aspects
B Secret societies-Religious aspects B Electronic books |
| Accès en ligne: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Édition parallèle: | Non-électronique
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| Résumé: | 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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| Description: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (268 pages) |
| ISBN: | 022674678X |