Lipson Freemasonry in Federalist Connecticut, 1789-1835

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-7008-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

Freemasonry prescribed for its members a supra-religious, supra-national philosophic universalism. Dorothy Ann Lipson examines its reception and adaptation in America, where its rapid spread was one index of increasing local diversity and cultural change.

After tracing the English origins of Masonry, the author focuses on its development in post-Revolutionary Connecticut, where the Calvinist churches and the state had been supported by an unusually homogeneous population. As a counterculture or form of dissent, the fraternity provided its members with a variant religious experience, a source of serial distinction, a stable reference in times of change, a means of education, and an ethically licensed form of recreation. The author considers its role in these areas as well as the implications of such a fraternity tor the lives of women. The confrontation of the Masons and anti-Masons in the first part of the nineteenth century receives special attention as it dramatized political, religious, and cultural diversification.

Originally published in 1978.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Lipson, Dorothy Ann

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Klubs, Vereine, Geheimgesellschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
Acknowledgments, pg. ix
Introduction, pg. 1
I. The Invention of Freemasonry, pg. 13
II. The Americanization of Freemasonry, pg. 46
III. Masonry and the Standing Order of Connecticut, pg. 80
IV. The Structure of Masonic Dissent, pg. 112
V. The Dynamics of Masonic Dissent: Putnam Lodge, pg. 150
VI. Masonry, Manners, and Morality, pg. 187
VII. The Masonic Counterculture: “That Which Is Not Bread”, pg. 228
VIII. “The Great Moral Shock”: Antimasonic Organization, pg. 267
IX. “The Grand Inquest of the Nation”: Masonry Recapitulated, pg. 312
Appendixes, pg. 341
Index, pg. 369