Library Record
Metadata
Call# |
M10 PAR |
Author |
Parfrey, Adam |
Title |
Ritual America Ritual America |
Title added entry |
Secret Brotherhoods and Their Influence on American Society: A Visual Guide |
Publisher |
Feral House |
Published Date |
2012 |
Published Place |
United States |
ISBN |
978-1936239146 |
Copy# |
1 |
Edition |
1 |
Catalog Number |
M10 PAR |
Collection |
History and Philosophy, General Works |
Accession number |
M10 |
Physical Description |
Hardcover 340p 1.2 x 9 x 11.2 inches |
Summary |
Secret societies—now a staple of bestseller novels—are pictured as sinister cults that use hooded albinos to menace truth-seekers. Some conspiracy books claim that fraternal orders are the work of serpentine aliens and interbred humans who wish to supplant earth of its energy, and later, its very existence. On the other side of the aisle, books by high-ranked Freemasons—skeptical in tone but no less partisan in approach—protect their organization's public image by denying the existence of its most contentious ideas. Ritual America reveals the biggest secret of them all: that the influence of fraternal brotherhoods on this country is vast, fundamental, and hidden in plain view. In the early twentieth century, as many as one-third of America belonged to a secret society. And though fezzes and tiny car parades are almost a thing of the past, the Gnostic beliefs of Masonic orders are now so much a part of the American mind that the surrounding pomp and circumstance has become faintly unnecessary. The authors of Ritual America contextualize hundreds of rare and many never-before printed images with entertaining and far-reaching commentary, making an esoteric subject provocative, exciting, and approachable. |
Subjects |
Fraternal organizations Freemasons Freemasonry and Religion/Spirituality Occultism Occult conspiracy |
Search Terms |
Freemasonry and Civil Society Freemasonry and popular culture Freemasonry and Religion/Spirituality Freemasonry, American Freemasons Occult Fraternal lodges Fraternal organizations Fraternal regalia Fraternal, Chivalric Fraternalism Fraternities & sororities |
Object Name |
Book |
Status |
OK |
Status date |
2014-12-31 |
Lexicon sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |