Women's agency and rituals in mixed and female Masonic orders /

Women have been structurally part of the masonic enterprise from at least the middle of the 18th century. This volume focuses on two aspects: Women's agency (the power women gained and exercised in this context) and rituals (the role of men and women in changing and shaping the rituals women wo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Heidle, Alexandra, Snoek, Joannes Augustinus Maria, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008.
Colección:Aries book series ; v. 8.
Temas:
Geschichte
Women and freemasonry.
Freemasonry > Rituals.
Femmes et franc-maçonnerie.
Franc-maçonnerie > Rituel.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Freemasonry & Secret Societies.
Freimaurerei
Ritual
Frau
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • List of Illustrations
  • Addresses of the Editors and Authors
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1
  • The Relationships of Androgynous Secret Orders with Freemasonry; Documents on the Ordre des Hermites de bonne humeur in Sachsen-Gotha (1739-1758)
  • Chapter 2
  • The Grand Lodge of Adoption, La Loge de Juste, The Hague, 1751: A Short-lived Experiment in Mixed Freemasonry or a Victim of Elegant Exploitation?
  • Chapter 3
  • Ma231;onnerie des Dames: The Plans of the Strict Observance to Establish a Female Branch
  • Chapter 4
  • Freemason Feminists: Masonic Reform and the Women's Movement in France, 1840-1914
  • Chapter 5
  • The 'Women's Question'. The Discussion, Especially in the Nineteenth Century, About Opening Membership of the Dutch Grand Lodge to Women
  • Chapter 6
  • Women and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: Nineteenth Century Occultist Initiation from a Gender Perspective
  • Chapter 7
  • Stretton's 'Operative' Masonry: Legacy or Forgery?
  • Chapter 8
  • Freemasonry and Suffrage: The Manifestation of Social Conscience
  • Chapter 9
  • 'Builders of the Temple of the New Civilisation': Annie Besant and Freemasonry
  • Chapter 10
  • Diversity In Unity? Background and History of the Different Masonic Traditions Within the Craft Lodges of the Dutch Federation of the International Order of Mixed Freemasonry 'Le Droit Humain'
  • Index of Orders and Lodges
  • Index of Names.

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