That Religion in Which All Men Agree: Freemasonry in American Culture

by David G. Hackett

Book Overview

This 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520287606
• ISBN13: 9780520287600
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"