{"product_id":"that-religion-in-which-all-men-agree-freemasonry-in-american-culture-hardcover","title":"That Religion in Which All Men Agree: Freemasonry in American Culture - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid G. Hackett\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis powerful study weaves the story of Freemasonry into the narrative of American religious history. Freighted with the mythical legacies of stonemasons' guilds and the Newtonian revolution, English Freemasonry arrived in colonial America with a vast array of cultural baggage, which was drawn on, added to, and transformed during its sojourn through American culture. David G. Hackett argues that from the 1730s through the early twentieth century the religious worlds of an evolving American social order broadly appropriated the beliefs and initiatory practices of this all-male society. For much of American history, Freemasonry was both counter and complement to Protestant churches, as well as a forum for collective action among racial and ethnic groups outside the European American Protestant mainstream. Moreover, the cultural template of Freemasonry gave shape and content to the American \"public sphere.\" By including a group not usually seen as a carrier of religious beliefs and rituals, Hackett expands and complicates the terrain of American religious history by showing how Freemasonry has contributed to a broader understanding of the multiple influences that have shaped religion in American culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn David Hackett's deeply researched and compellingly written study, the Masons step directly into American religious history. Hackett presents Freemasonry as a bricolage of Enlightenment pretensions, Romanticism dreams, Christian inheritances, fragments of 'ancient' wisdom, and Native American lore. It is a surprisingly multicultural story, and in Hackett's telling, Freemasonry helped create the modern American public sphere by offering a forum for collective action and male solidarity. \u003ci\u003eThat Religion in Which All Men Agree\u003c\/i\u003e is religious history on a grand scale. --Robert Orsi, Grace Craddock Nagle Chair in Catholic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies and History at Northwestern University \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"There are many studies of Freemasonry, but none like this one. Combining original research with a 'big picture' synthetic story about the history of Freemasonry, \u003ci\u003eThat Religion in Which All Men Agree\u003c\/i\u003e is a valuable and useful work of scholarship.\" --Paul Harvey, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eThe Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Professor Hackett examines Freemasonry as a radically tolerant power uniting European Americans and enabling men of different backgrounds--African American, Native American, Jewish, and Catholic--to integrate into the larger American society. He demonstrates how Freemasonry was used to conciliate true friendship among those who might otherwise have remained at a perpetual distance and clearly establishes the Fraternity as a robust and complex force in the evolution of American society.\" --S. Brent Morris, Past Master, Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076, London \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid G. Hackett \u003c\/b\u003eteaches American religious history at the University of Florida.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 31, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47521653588189,"sku":"9780520281677","price":97.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/v6eyAQOItv9780520281677.webp?v=1772264122","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/that-religion-in-which-all-men-agree-freemasonry-in-american-culture-hardcover","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}