{"title":"FIELD, Ophelia, The Kit-Cat Club (London: Harper Perennial, 2009), 523 pp., £9.99, Pbk, ISBN: 9780007178933","authors":"R. Collis","doi":"10.1558/JRFF.V1I2.271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JRFF.V1I2.271","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Robert Collis, Leverhulme Research Fellow, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. Email: r.collis@sheffield.ac.uk","PeriodicalId":147836,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Research Into Freemasonry and Fraternalism","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128945711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"WEBSTER, Charles, Paracelsus: Medicine, Magic, and Mission at the End of Time (New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2008). 326 pp., €29.00, Illustrated, Hbk, ISBN 9780300139112","authors":"G. Szőnyi","doi":"10.1558/JRFF.V1I2.289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JRFF.V1I2.289","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Gyorgy E. Szőnyi, University of Szeged/Central European University, Budapest, Egyetem u. 2./nador u. 9. H6722/H1051 Hungary. \u0000Email: geszonyi@freemail.hu","PeriodicalId":147836,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Research Into Freemasonry and Fraternalism","volume":"18 8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125910350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SMITH, Douglas, The Pearl (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008), 328 pp., £25.00, Hbk, ISBN: 9780300120417; £16.99, Pbk, ISBN: 9780300158588","authors":"R. Collis","doi":"10.1558/JRFF.V1I2.273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JRFF.V1I2.273","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Robert Collis, Leverhulme Research Fellow, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. \u0000Email: r.collis@sheffield.ac.uk","PeriodicalId":147836,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Research Into Freemasonry and Fraternalism","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128491705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HARRISON, David, The Genesis of Freemasonry (Hersham: Lewis Masonic, 2009), 224 pp., £19.99, Hbk, ISBN 9780853183228","authors":"R. Péter","doi":"10.1558/JRFF.V1I2.277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JRFF.V1I2.277","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Robert Peter, Phd, Senior Assistant Professor, University of Szeged, Institute of English and American Studies, H6722, Szeged, Egyetem u. 2, Hungary. \u0000Email: rpeter@lit.uszeged.hu","PeriodicalId":147836,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Research Into Freemasonry and Fraternalism","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122216641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LOMAS, Robert, The Invisible College (London: Corgi, Transworld Publishers, 2009, 1st edn 2002), 494 pp., £7.99, Pbk, ISBN: 978-0-552-15837-4","authors":"Frigyes Hausz","doi":"10.1558/JRFF.V1I2.291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JRFF.V1I2.291","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Frigyes Hausz, doctoral candidate at the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Szeged, H6722, szeged, Egyetem u. 2. Hungary. \u0000Email: frigyes.hausz@gmail.com","PeriodicalId":147836,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Research Into Freemasonry and Fraternalism","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131981358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SCHRANS, Guy, Vrijmetselaars te Gent in de XVIIIde eeuw (Gent: Liberaal Archief, 2009), 831 pp., € 49, Hbk.","authors":"Anais Maes","doi":"10.1558/JRFF.V1I2.285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JRFF.V1I2.285","url":null,"abstract":"Reviewed by: Anais Maes, Phd student, Interdisciplinary Research Group Freemasonry, Department of History, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Free University of Brussels), Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Elsene, Belgium. \u0000Email: anais.maes@vub.ac.be","PeriodicalId":147836,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Research Into Freemasonry and Fraternalism","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132143904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performing Freemasonry: The practical-symbolic Constitution of a Civic Habitus in Eighteenth-Century England","authors":"Kristiane Hasselmann","doi":"10.1558/JRFF.V1I2.184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JRFF.V1I2.184","url":null,"abstract":"From the eighteenth century onwards the fraternity of freemasons in England has aimed to spiritually and morally refine its members and modify their behaviour patterns. In other words, it has striven to create a performative habitus that is consolidated beyond the routine of the lodge to achieve practical application in everyday life. The struggle for approbation of a private space for civil self-realisation gave rise to the modern ethics of conscience. Its tendency to internalise morals led away from outward modes of behaviour and, thus, away from the body. Yet, the constitutive process of modernity also required a reformation of manners that established the modern “performative ethics of habitus” and remained inextricably linked to physical actions. In this sense the fraternity of freemasons pursues the formation of enduring moral dispositions that initially find expression in, and are acquired through, physical action. In its effort for recognition, this programmatic practice and formation of a masonic habitus is always directed towards performance. My study analyses the masonic claim to self-invention as a case study of an ethics of habitus rooted in the Aristotelian tradition and renewed in the eighteenth century.","PeriodicalId":147836,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Research Into Freemasonry and Fraternalism","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121358492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pragmatic Constructions of History among Contemporary Freemasons","authors":"J. Kenney","doi":"10.1558/JRFF.V1I2.157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JRFF.V1I2.157","url":null,"abstract":"Despite considerable interest in Freemasonry developing among historians in recent years, the social sciences have played a lesser part in the burgeoning academic interest in this area. In this paper, I seek, in one small way, to bring a sociological perspective to bear on Freemasonry. Specifically, by utilizing G.H. Mead's (1932) theory of the past as a sensitizing concept, and exploring data from 58 videotapes, 118 interviews, and field observations, I explore how contemporary Freemasons pragmatically reconstruct the past in the present, in a variety of ways, for present ends. This exercise helps shed new light on a wide range of issues facing the Craft today, including membership, Masonic constructions of self, loss of Masonic built heritage, the influence of tradition, constructions of Masonic origin, and the role of Masonic mythologies today.","PeriodicalId":147836,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Research Into Freemasonry and Fraternalism","volume":"565 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116522735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From a Legitimate Field of Research to an Accepted University-Taught Subject?","authors":"Natalie Bayer","doi":"10.1558/JRFF.V1I2.256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JRFF.V1I2.256","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":147836,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Research Into Freemasonry and Fraternalism","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129251054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Researching Freemasonry; Where are we?","authors":"J. Snoek","doi":"10.1558/JRFF.V1I2.225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/JRFF.V1I2.225","url":null,"abstract":"This article deals with the development of historical enquiry into freemasonry since its origins to the current academic treatment. This development is divided into two general phases when freemasons researched their history themselves and when it during the Twentieth century became an academic subject. The major developmental lines in historiography are treated. It is argued that new archival findings will modify deeply rooted perceptions of historical events, exemplified by Anderson's account of the formation of the English grand lodge in 1717 and von Hunds initiation in Paris in 1742. Conclusively the article suggests a catalogue of research that still is to be done.","PeriodicalId":147836,"journal":{"name":"Journal for Research Into Freemasonry and Fraternalism","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116471403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}