UID:
almahu_9949297006202882
Umfang:
1 online resource (264 p.) :
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20 halftones
ISBN:
9780226746784
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9783110754001
Inhalt:
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 manipulate consumer preferences and voting outcomes. We have become accustomed to thinking about secrecy in political terms and personal privacy terms. In this bracing, new work, Hugh Urban wants us to focus these same powers of observation on the role of secrecy in religion. With Secrecy, Urban investigates several revealing instances of the power of secrecy in religion, including nineteenth-century Scottish Rite Freemasonry, the sexual magic of a Russian-born Parisian mystic; the white supremacist BrüderSchweigen or "Silent Brotherhood" movement of the 1980s, the Five Percenters, and the Church of Scientology. An electrifying read, Secrecy is the culmination of decades of Urban's reflections on a vexed, ever-present subject.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Preface: Secrecy, the Human Dress --
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Introduction. The Vestment of Power --
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Chapter 1. The Adornment of Silence --
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Chapter 2. The Secret Doctrine --
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Chapter 3. The Seduction of the Secret --
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Chapter 4. Secrecy and Social Resistance --
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Chapter 5. The Terror of Secrecy --
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Chapter 6. The Third Wall of Fire --
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Conclusions: The Science of the Hidden --
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Acknowledgments --
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Notes --
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Index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English, De Gruyter, 9783110754001
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110753776
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Theol., Relig.Stud., Jewish Stud. 2021 English, De Gruyter, 9783110754193
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EBOOK PACKAGE Theol., Relig.Stud., Jewish Stud. 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110753974
In:
University of Chicago Complete eBook-Package 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110739190
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780226746784
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