Andreas Onnerfors

Freemasonry: A Very Short Introduction

Sprecher: Lewis, Christa

• Audio CD

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Tantor
• Gesamtlaufzeit: 290 Min.
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798200401284
• Artikelnr.: 61604751

Autorenporträt

Andreas Önnerfors is Associate Professor of the History of Sciences and Ideas at the University of Gothenburg. Prior to that he was Director of the Centre for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism at The University of Sheffield from 2007-2010. There, he published three academic volumes and launched the first academic journal in the area, the Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism. He is a leading expert in freemasonry and has played a key part in the development of the research area during the last fifteen years. He has written several articles in peer reviewed journals and a chapters in edited books including a chapter on Illuminism in The Occult World (by Christopher Partridge ed, Routledge, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Three centuries of Freemasonry
Historical legacies
Enlightenment foundations
From darkness to light
Organizational culture
Brotherhood challenged
Perceptions, prejudices and persecutions
Timeline
References
Further Reading
Index