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Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism

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ISSN (Print) 17572460 - ISSN (Online) 1757-2479
Published by Equinox Publishing

[23 journals]

Review: Fathi, Schirin (ed.) Komplotte, Ketzer und Konspirationen. Zur Logik des Verschwörungsdenkens— Beispiele aus dem Nahen Osten (Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2010), 326 pp., €29.80, Hbk, ISBN: 978-3-8376-1341-4.
- Authors: Dorothe Sommer
  PubDate: 2012-05-02
  Issue No: Vol. 2 (2012)
Review: Nathaus, K, Organisierte Geselligkeit. Deutsche und Britische Vereine im 19 und 20 Jahrhundert. Series: Kritische Studien zur Geschichtswissenschaft, Bd. 181 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2009), 328 pp., £39.95, €83.64, Pbk, ISBN: 3525370024
- Authors: Anne Heyer
  PubDate: 2012-05-02
  Issue No: Vol. 2 (2012)
Review: Vinitsky, Ilya, Ghostly Paradoxes: Modern Spiritualism and Russian Culture in the Age of Realism (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009), xvii+ 251 pp., $65, £42, Illustrated, Hbk, ISBN: 9780802099358.
- Authors: Robert Collis
  PubDate: 2012-05-02
  Issue No: Vol. 2 (2012)
Review: Aptekman, Marina, Jacob’s Ladder: Kabbalistic Allegory in Russian Literature (Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2011), 249 pp., $70, £58.50, Illustrated, Hbk, ISBN: 9781934843383.
- Authors: Robert Collis
  PubDate: 2012-05-02
  Issue No: Vol. 2 (2012)
Review: Van Hille, Jean-Marc (ed.), Dictionnaire des marins francs-maçons: gens de mer et professions connexes aux XVIIIe, XIXe et XXe siècles (Paris: SPM-Lettrage, 2011), 529 pp, €46.50, Pbk ISBN-10: 290195281X, ISBN-13: 978-2901952817, French
- Authors: Andrew Pink
  PubDate: 2012-05-02
  Issue No: Vol. 2 (2012)
Review: Kelly, James and Martyn J. Powell (eds), Clubs and Societies in Eighteenth-Century Ireland (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010), 496 pp, £50, €55.00, Hbk, ISBN: 1846822297.
- Authors: Daniel Weinbren
  PubDate: 2012-05-02
  Issue No: Vol. 2 (2012)
Review: McCluskey, Fergal, Fenians and Ribbonmen: the Development of Republican Politics in East Tyrone 1898–1918 (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2011), 282 pp., £60, Hbk, ISBN 978-0-7190-8471-3.
- Authors: Anthony David Buckley
  PubDate: 2012-05-02
  Issue No: Vol. 2 (2012)
Review: Önnerfors, Andreas and Dorothe Sommer (eds), Freemasonry and Fraternalism in the Middle East (Sheffield: The University of Sheffield—Centre for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism, 2009), 171 pp., £20, Pbk, ISBN 978-0- 95620960-3.
- Authors: Stephan Schmid
  PubDate: 2012-05-02
  Issue No: Vol. 2 (2012)
Review: Pflugrad-Jackisch, Ami, Brothers of a Vow. Secret Fraternal Orders and the Transformation of White Male Culture in Antebellum Virginia (Athens & London: University of Georgia Press, 2010), vii + 181 pp., $39.95, Hbk., ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3227
- Authors: Jeffrey Tyssens
  PubDate: 2012-05-02
  Issue No: Vol. 2 (2012)
Review: Wilkie, Laurie A., The Lost Boys of Zeta Psi: A Historical Archaeology of Masculinity at a University Fraternity (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2010), xvi + 343 pp., $24.95, Pbk, ISBN: 9780520260603.
- Authors: Aimee E. Newell
  PubDate: 2012-05-02
  Issue No: Vol. 2 (2012)
Review: Groth, Gary (ed.), Charles Schneider, David Copperfield, and William D. Moore. Catalog No. 439: Burlesque Paraphernalia and Side Degree Specialties and Costumes (Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics Books, 2010) 256 pp., $22.99, Pbk, ISBN: 978-1-60699-367-5
- Authors: Jeffrey Croteau
  PubDate: 2012-05-02
  Issue No: Vol. 2 (2012)
Review: Cross, Máire Fedelma (ed.), Gender and Fraternal Orders in Europe, 1300–2000 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), xiii + 270 pp., £60.00, Hbk, ISBN 978- 0-230-27527.
- Authors: Jan Snoek
  PubDate: 2012-05-02
  Issue No: Vol. 2 (2012)
Review: Lord, Evelyn, The Hell-Fire Clubs: Sex, Satanism and Secret Societies (New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2008), xxix+247 pp., Illustrated, £25 Hbk, ISBN 978-0-300-11667-0; £12.99 Pbk, ISBN 978-0-300-16402-2.
- Authors: Petri Mirala
  PubDate: 2012-05-02
  Issue No: Vol. 2 (2012)
The Secrets of the Copiale Cipher
- Authors: Kevin Knight|Beáta Megyesi|Christiane Schaefer
  Abstract: The Copiale Cipher is a105-pages long, hand-written encrypted manuscript from the mid-eighteenth century. Its code was cracked and the text was deciphered by using modern computational technology combined with philological methods. We describe the book, the features of the text, and give a brief summary of the method by which we deciphered it. Finally, we present the content and the secret society, namely the Oculists, who were hiding behind the cipher.
  PubDate: 2012-05-02
  Issue No: Vol. 2 (2012)
Freemasonry and the Press in Twentieth-century Britain
- Authors: Paul Richard Calderwood
  Abstract: The following article—based upon a doctoral thesis that was approved by the University of London in 2011—represents a study of British media coverage of freemasonry in the twentieth-century. It considers how and why the public image of freemasonry changed from that of a highly respected élite organization, at the centre of public life in 1900, to a position on the fringes in the 1990s, regarded with suspicion and disapproval by many. It focuses exclusively on national newspapers. This article describes how the press projected a positive message of the organization for almost 40 years, based on a mass of news, which the author believes—and shows—emanated from the organization itself (making it an unexpected pioneer in modern public relations practice). It concludes that the change of image and public regard, which occurred during the twentieth-century, was due, mainly—but not solely—to masonic withdrawal from the public sphere. It considers—and finds wanting—the suggestion that this withdrawal was a response to fascist persecution and it offers a number of additional explanations. Freemasonry’s reluctance to engage with the media after 1936 powerfully assisted its critics, who grew in strength as a result of developments within the media and the churches. In the second-half of the century, greater competition spawned a more challenging form of journalism and accelerated the decline of deference. Concurrently, the rise of secularism and religious pluralism in Britain provided Christianity with increased competition and led some adherents to re-define freemasonry and to treat it as a rival. Throughout the period, ‘Conspiracy culture’ remained strong, rendering the secrecy of freemasonry a major handicap to public understanding. The history of freemasonry in twentieth-century Britain is largely an unexplored field and, in examining the fraternity’s media profile, this study also illuminates the organization’s collisions with nationalism, communism and state welfare provision.
  PubDate: 2012-05-02
  Issue No: Vol. 2 (2012)
Association, Patronizing and Autonomy: Belgian Masonic Lodges as Sponsors of a 'Cooperative' Movement in the 1860s and 1870s
- Authors: Jeffrey Tyssens
  Abstract: In the 1860s and 1870s Belgian Masonic lodges actively organized cooperative societies which were people’s kitchens and people’s banks. Being dissatisfied with classical Masonic charity, a series of urban lodges wanted to engage in a broader and more efficient social action. Through association they hoped to foster self-help, thrift and autonomy among workers. These values would eventually allow the lower classes to accumulate possessions and to emancipate themselves. In time this would lead to an integration of at least the more ‘decent’ or moralized parts of the working classes into the community of active citizenry. This citizenship model of the ‘productive virtue’ was carried by radical liberals who were strongly present in the Belgian lodges that engaged into cooperative ventures. Most Masonic cooperatives did not last, with the exception of the Brussels people’s kitchen. They also failed to attract those social groups for which they were intended.
  PubDate: 2012-05-02
  Issue No: Vol. 2 (2012)
Citoyenneté, Suffrage Universel et Franc-maçonnerie: Le Cas Belge 1848–1914
- Authors: Anaïs Maes
  Abstract: This article investigates the evolution of ideas and representations concerning universal suffrage and participative citizenship within Belgian freemasonry in the second half of the long nineteenth century. As Belgium evolved from a system of census suffrage (1831) to tempered universal suffrage (1893), the masons put their ideas, definitions and representations of citizenship up for discussion. To better understand this process of questioning and redefining of notions of suffrage, capacity, citizenship and sovereignty of the nation, use is made of theoretical insights provided by Pierre Rosanvallon and Siep Stuurman. Their models and hypotheses will contribute to a better understanding of the interactions between masons of different political tendencies and their positions towards the developments outside temple walls.
  PubDate: 2012-05-02
  Issue No: Vol. 2 (2012)
Editorial
- Authors: Andreas Önnerfors|Robert Collis
  PubDate: 2012-05-02
  Issue No: Vol. 2 (2012)
Jolly Jades, Lewd Ladies and Moral Muses: Women and Clubs in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain
- Authors: Robert Collis
  Abstract: This article argues that the range of female participation in the associational culture of fraternalism in early eighteenth-century Britain—in terms of class background, social setting and moral philosophy—was surprisingly rich and varied. In effect, such a claim complements the body of work written in the past two decades, by historians such as Steve Pincus, Brian Cowan, Markham Ellis and Helen Berry, vis-à-vis the place of women in the public sphere of the coffeehouse in post-Restoration and Augustan England. This hypothesis will be developed by outlining the active involvement of women in three distinct spheres of fraternal culture in early eighteenth-century Britain. First, I will explore the manner in which women participated in or mimicked the culture of alehouse clubbing in early eighteenth-century London. Second, I will emphasize the prominent role of aristocratic ladies in mixed bacchanalian and masquerade societies, including the Order of the Horn, The Hell-Fire Club and the Gallant Schemers, that met in several notable town houses or country retreats of the English and Scottish gentry. Lastly, a study will be made of the all-female Fair Intellectual Club, which was established in May 1717 in Edinburgh.
  PubDate: 2012-05-02
  Issue No: Vol. 2 (2012)