Secret Ritual and Manhood in Victorian America. - CARNES, MARK C.

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Freemasons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias - why did millions of nineteenth century American men belong to these and other secret orders? In this engrossing study, Mark C. Carnes argues that fraternal rituals created a fantasy world antithetical to prevailing religious practices, gender roles, and institutional structures, offering a male religious counterculture that opposed an increasingly liberal and feminized Protestantism.
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1989Uitgever: Yale University Press226 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0300044240ISBN-13: 9780300044249

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