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Religion, Policy, and Secrecy: The Latter Day Saints and Masons
Author(s) -
Rich Paul,
Merchant David
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
policy studies journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1541-0072
pISSN - 0190-292X
DOI - 10.1111/1541-0072.00049
Subject(s) - secrecy , patriotism , politics , infatuation , law , political science , order (exchange) , religious studies , sociology , philosophy , psychoanalysis , psychology , economics , finance
On a vanished secret order: “Had politics, as in Masonry, been its main object, it would have held on with tenacity to its principles, as to the threads of life, and, disregarding its departure from sound morals, or patriotism, would still have contended, with the infatuation of a Mormonite, for the enjoyment, in secret, of that which in the eye of the public would overwhelm its members in confusions.”“A Traveller in the United States”, A Ritual and Illustrations of Free‐Masonry and the Orange and Odd Fellows’ Societies, Accompanied by Numerous Engravings, and a Key to the Phi Beta Kappa , S. Thrne, Devon (Shebbear, near Hatherleigh, England), 1835, 251.