That Religion in Which All Men Agree Freemasonry in American Culture. [electronic resource] :
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 2014.
- 1 online resource (330 p.)
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; 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; 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, 1723-1920Epilogue; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
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.