Secrecy : silence, power, and religion / Hugh B. Urban.

"Urban focuses on six modalities of religious secrecy, each illustrated by one primary example. He starts with nineteenth-century Scottish Rite Freemasonry, then moves to the Theosophical Society of the late nineteenth century; the sexual magic of a Russian-born Parisian mystic, Maria de Naglow...

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Main Author: Urban, Hugh B. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.
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505 0 |a The vestment of power -- The adornment of silence : secrecy and symbolic power in American Freemasonry -- The secret doctrine : the advertisement of the secret in the Theosophical Society and the Esoteric Section -- The seduction of the secret : eros and magic in twentieth-century Europe -- Secrecy and social resistance : the Five-Percenters and the arts of subversive bricolage -- The terror of secrecy : racism, masculinity, and violence in the late Brüder Schweigen -- The third wall of fire : Scientology and the study of religious secrecy in the twenty-first century -- The science of the hidden : secrecy and the critical study of religion in an age of surveillance. 
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