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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2021.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.