Freemasonry and American Culture, 1880-1930 (Princeton Legacy Library, 1073) - Softcover

Dumenil, Lynn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691612269 ISBN 13: 9780691612263

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2014

Synopsis

As the United States moved from Victorian values to those of modern consumerism, the religious component of Freemasonry was increasingly displaced by a secular ideology of service (like that of business and professional clubs), and the Freemasons' psychology of asylum from the competitive world gave way to the aim of good fellowship" within it. This study not only illuminates this process but clarifies the neglected topic of fraternal orders and enriches our understanding of key facets of American cultural change.

Originally published in 1984.

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About this title

About the Author:

Lynn Dumenil is Robert Glass Cleland Professor of American History at Occidental College. Dumenil has written "The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s" and "Freemasonry and American Culture: 1880-1930", and she is editor in chief of the forthcoming "Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History".

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0691612269
• ISBN 13: 9780691612263
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 330