Juli 12, 2016, 1:54 pm, Miguel Hernandez, Allgemein.
The growth of the American obsession with fraternalism has been the subject of several historical treatises all seeking to understand what drew men and women into the lodge. The 1920s however, are a period that is often overlooked and neglected. Fraternalism continued to be a powerful national influence during this decade, and across the country orders received a surge of new recruits in the years following the First World War. Although their lodges had plenty of applicants, many fraternal leaders were concerned about the state of their institution in this post-war era. This article aims to analyse the evolution in the fraternal market that took place in the 1920s by examining the rapidly modernizing society of the Jazz Age and discussing the changing priorities of America’s men and women.
Juli 12, 2016, 1:53 pm, Andrew Pink, Allgemein.
This report gives an overview of the fourth annual International Doctoral Students Study Day on the theme of ‘Freemasonry and Fraternalism’. Those presenting papers represent a cross-section of the doctoral experience, from those just beginning the doctoral journey to those having recently completed it. The range of material discussed demonstrates the richness and vitality of the subject: Nazi-occupied Guernsey; freemasonry under the British Raj; Italian freemasonry in Ottoman lands; music and ritual in freemasonry; the masonic tradition of the seven liberal arts.
Juli 12, 2016, 1:52 pm, Simon Deschamps, Allgemein.
Throughout the eighteenth century, the expansion of the Empire brought the British into closer contact with the Eastern world. The conquest of land went hand in hand with the conquest of knowledge. The East, including India, was systematically explored and revealed to Britain in the form of oriental tales, exploration accounts and scientific investigations. This phenomenon came to be known as ‘orientalism’. For freemasonry, the East had always been the symbolical direction from which light and truth were to rise. The British foothold in India and more so the constitution of the first Indian lodges, starting in 1730, came as an opportunity to explore the potential filiation of freemasonry with the early Indian civilizations. The East was thus more present than ever in the masonic collective imaginary. Where did freemasonry’s interest in Eastern cultures stem from? To what extent can it be said that freemasonry contributed to opening up the East? This article aims to explore the participation of British freemasonry to the orientalist movement of the late eighteenth century.
Juli 12, 2016, 1:52 pm, Joost Jonker, Allgemein.
The Hobsbawm-Ranger framework of invented traditions is a suitable perspective from which to examine masonic traditions. Examples from early Dutch lodges show how they strove to gain primacy by anchoring their origins as far back in the past as reasona…
Juli 12, 2016, 1:51 pm, Andrew Pink, Allgemein.
Quelle: https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/JRFF/article/view/27564
Juli 12, 2016, 1:50 pm, Daniel Weinbren, Allgemein.
Quelle: https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/JRFF/article/view/27636
Juli 12, 2016, 1:50 pm, Dan Weinbren, Allgemein.
Quelle: https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/JRFF/article/view/27538
Juli 12, 2016, 1:50 pm, Susan Sommers, Allgemein.
Quelle: https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/JRFF/article/view/27213
Juli 12, 2016, 1:49 pm, Aimee E. Newell, Allgemein.
Quelle: https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/JRFF/article/view/24954
Juli 12, 2016, 1:48 pm, Marsha Keith Schuchard, Allgemein.
Quelle: https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/JRFF/article/view/24666