The Patron Saints and the Point Within the Circle
by Roy Mandell and Margaret Schmidt. Oil on canvas. 2014
Commissioned by John Mercer Lodge in Omaha Nebraska
Co-Editors
Paul J. Rich, Policy Studies Organization
Guillermo de los Reyes, University of Houston
by Roy Mandell and Margaret Schmidt. Oil on canvas. 2014
Commissioned by John Mercer Lodge in Omaha Nebraska
Co-Editors
Paul J. Rich, Policy Studies Organization
Guillermo de los Reyes, University of Houston
About
The focus of this journal is on peculiar contributions to the social capital of ritual and ceremony, often accompanied by secrecy and covertness that have been noted for many years -- but understudied. The unraveling of these myriad influences, including their consequences for the way they have figured in the evolution of the body politic, the corpus reipublicae mysticum, is no small task.
For an example of this complexity, when Alexis de Tocqueville observed the role of voluntary associations in shaping the country on his visit to the United States in 1831, he and his companion Gustave de Beaumont had arrived as the anti Masonic political hysteria over the Morgan Affair was sweeping the land as well as in the aftermath of Lafayette's 1824-25 tour that involved the Masons in elaborate welcoming ceremonies, and the publication of the Book of Mormon in 1830. All of this had lasting lasting influence, but understanding what and how, like with many situations this journal hopes to probe, challenges scholars.
This journal then invites wide ranging examination of events and personalities and movements in various eras that have played their part in some darkness. and been viewed as arcane. Appropriately a hard time is said to be giving someone the third degree. That phrase for intense interrogation owes its origin to the third degree of Masonry. How apt then to hope that scholars will use these pages to interrogate social processes and societies needing more scrutiny.
Since the first call for papers in 2006, The International Conference on the Enlightenment and Freemasonry, in support of the journal have advanced Enlightenment studies in surprising ways and suggested hitherto unappreciated and surprising directions. A growing Westphalia Press library of books also contributes, with the Library of the Enlightenment and Freemasonry.
Ritual, Secrecy and Civil Society journal is supported by Policy Studies Organization. The Policy Studies Organization is in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations since 2023.
Online ISSN: 2334-0797
For an example of this complexity, when Alexis de Tocqueville observed the role of voluntary associations in shaping the country on his visit to the United States in 1831, he and his companion Gustave de Beaumont had arrived as the anti Masonic political hysteria over the Morgan Affair was sweeping the land as well as in the aftermath of Lafayette's 1824-25 tour that involved the Masons in elaborate welcoming ceremonies, and the publication of the Book of Mormon in 1830. All of this had lasting lasting influence, but understanding what and how, like with many situations this journal hopes to probe, challenges scholars.
This journal then invites wide ranging examination of events and personalities and movements in various eras that have played their part in some darkness. and been viewed as arcane. Appropriately a hard time is said to be giving someone the third degree. That phrase for intense interrogation owes its origin to the third degree of Masonry. How apt then to hope that scholars will use these pages to interrogate social processes and societies needing more scrutiny.
Since the first call for papers in 2006, The International Conference on the Enlightenment and Freemasonry, in support of the journal have advanced Enlightenment studies in surprising ways and suggested hitherto unappreciated and surprising directions. A growing Westphalia Press library of books also contributes, with the Library of the Enlightenment and Freemasonry.
Ritual, Secrecy and Civil Society journal is supported by Policy Studies Organization. The Policy Studies Organization is in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations since 2023.
Online ISSN: 2334-0797
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