Bonds of Secrecy illuminates the relationship between human experiences of secrecy and early medieval beliefs about divine omniscience. Benjamin A. Saltzman argues that this relationship was fundamental to early English legal and monastic culture and profoundly shaped the practi…
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-centu…
"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,…
"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,…
The powers of political secrecy and social spectacle have been taken to surreal extremes recently. Witness the twin terrors of a president who refuses to disclose dealings with foreign powers while the private data of ordinary citizens is stolen and marketed in order to manipula…
Lors de l'ouverture d'une exposition des trésors du Vatican, au Metropolitan Museum, quatre cavaliers déguisés en Templiers s'emparent de précieux objets dont l'un pourrait bouleverser la destinée du monde chrétien. Variation sur un thème assez éculé. Scénario et dessin sans sur…
Drawing on a wide array of sources, this anthology sets out to analyze the concepts of mystery and secrecy that occur in the ritual and rhetoric of antique Mediterranean religion, with an emphasis on Gnosticism, Christianity, and Paganism.
Secret, initiations et sociétés modernes
by Maffesoli, Michel, Poulat, Émile, Gouhier, Alain, Mayer, Jean-François, Bouvier, Michel, Brach, Jean-Pierre, Laurant, Jean-Pierre, Gauthé, Jean-Jacques, Secret, initiations et sociétés modernes, Paris, France), École pratique des hautes études (Paris, France)., 5e section
The culture of secrecy in Japanese religion
<P>The Japanese Middle Ages were a period when forms of secrecy dominated religious practice. This fascinating collection traces out the secret characteristics and practices in Japanese religion, as well as analyzing the decline of religious esotericism in Japan. </P><P>The essa…
The Japanese Middle Ages were a period when forms of secrecy dominated religious practice. This fascinating collection traces out the secret characteristics and practices in Japanese religion, as well as analyzing the decline of religious esotericism in Japan. The essays in this…
The Japanese Middle Ages were a period when forms of secrecy dominated religious practice. This fascinating collection traces out the secret characteristics and practices in Japanese religion, as well as analyzing the decline of religious esotericism in Japan. The essays in this…