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Brought to Light : Contemporary Freemasonry, Meaning, and Society /
"Secret societies are becoming increasingly controversial--thrust into public awareness by popular books, films, the Internet, and a host of recent documentaries. In academia, this exposure finds a parallel in the proliferation of research, institutes, and conferences. Yet the media depictions...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ottawa, Ontario :
Canadian Electronic Library,
2016.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Contemporary freemasonry: a neglected field -- Paths to masonry -- Taking the degrees -- Social atmosphere and member involvement -- Organizational factors and member involvement -- Further factors in member involvement and an overall explanatory framework -- Claimed life changes since becoming a freemason -- Contemporary freemasonry: the direction forward? | |
| 520 | |a "Secret societies are becoming increasingly controversial--thrust into public awareness by popular books, films, the Internet, and a host of recent documentaries. In academia, this exposure finds a parallel in the proliferation of research, institutes, and conferences. Yet the media depictions tend to be caricatures, a playing to pervasive stereotypes for public consumption, while the academic stress historical and philological matters. Indeed, to the extent a sociological focus exists, it largely emphasizes the roles these groups played in social history. And for the societies' members themselves, there has been a paucity of work on the contemporary meaning of these groups--a neglect made mystifying by the vast social changes that have taken place over the past century. In this study, and for the first time by any scholar, Kenney moves beyond history and applies the methods and theoretical tools of contemporary sociology to study the lived world of freemasons in today's society, "--Amazon.com. | ||
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