That Religion in Which All Men Agree - Freemasonry in American Culture

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-520-28167-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 636 g

This powerful study weaves the story of Freemasonry into the narrative of American religious history. Freighted with the mythical legacies of stonemasons’ guilds and the Newtonian revolution, English Freemasonry arrived in colonial America with a vast array of cultural baggage, which was drawn on, added to, and transformed during its sojourn through American culture. David G. Hackett argues that from the 1730s through the early twentieth century the religious worlds of an evolving American social order broadly appropriated the beliefs and initiatory practices of this all-male society. For much of American history, Freemasonry was both counter and complement to Protestant churches, as well as a forum for collective action among racial and ethnic groups outside the European American Protestant mainstream. Moreover, the cultural template of Freemasonry gave shape and content to the American “public sphere.” By including a group not usually seen as a carrier of religious beliefs and rituals, Hackett expands and complicates the terrain of American religious history by showing how Freemasonry has contributed to a broader understanding of the multiple influences that have shaped religion in American culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hackett, David G.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Klubs, Vereine, Geheimgesellschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART ONE. EUROPEAN AMERICAN FREEMASONRY

1. Colonial Freemasonry and Polite Society, 1733–1776

2. Revolutionary Masonry: Republican and Christian, 1757–1825

3. A Private World of Ritual, 1797–1825 00

4. Anti-Masonry and the Public Sphere, 1826–1850

5. Gender, Protestants, and Freemasonry, 1850–1920

PART TWO. BEYOND THE WHITE PROTESTANT MIDDLE CLASS

6. The Prince Hall Masons and the African American Church: The Labors of Grand Master and Bishop James Walker Hood, 1864–1918

7. Freemasonry and Native Americans, 1776–1920

8. Jews and Catholics, 1723–1920

Epilogue

Notes

Index

Über Autor(innen)

David G. Hackett teaches American religious history at the University of Florida.