Freemasonry in Federalist Connecticut, 1789-1835

ISBN: 9780691614090 出版年：2015 页码：391 Lipson, Dorothy Ann Princeton University Press

Freemasonry prescribed for its members a supra-religious, supra-national philosophic universalism. Dorothy ann lipson examines its reception and adaptation in america, where its rapid spread was one index of increasing local diversity and cultural change. After tracing the english origins of masonry, the author focuses on its development in post-revolutionary connecticut, where the calvinist churches and the state had been supported by an unusually homogeneous population. As a counterculture or form of dissent, the fraternity provided its members with a variant religious experience, a source of serial distinction, a stable reference in times of change, a means of education, and an ethically licensed form of recreation.