scholarly journals L. M. Vincent. A Theft of Privilege: Harvard and the Buried History of a Notorious Secret Society Independently Published, 2020. 301 pp.

2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 558-561
Author(s):  
Heidi Jaeckle
Keyword(s):  
Secret Society ◽  
History Of

Story of a Secret Society

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 135-154
Author(s):  
Marina Galletti
Keyword(s):  
Secret Society ◽  
Political Aspect ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Activity ◽  
History Of

This article aims to retrace the history of the Acéphale secret society and its role in the development of the work of Bataille, notably the unfinished project of the Atheological Summa ( Somme athéologique) . Based on sociological notions of the ‘secret society’ and ‘the society of men’, it updates the dual aspects of Acéphale: a diurnal or ‘political’ aspect constituted by the publication of the journal Acéphale, and afterwards by the public activity of the College of Sociology; and a nocturnal or religious side, as evidenced by the activity of the secret society itself, an activity aiming to strengthen the communitarian link amongst the followers, and to open them up to what Caillois would call ‘a broader conspiracy’.

A Secret Society History of the Civil War

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark A. Lause
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil War ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Secret Society ◽  
Secret Societies ◽  
Harpers Ferry ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Events ◽  
The Impact

This history of the Civil War considers the impact of nineteenth-century American secret societies on the path to as well as the course of the war. Beginning with the European secret societies that laid the groundwork for Freemasonry in the United States, the book analyzes how the Old World's traditions influenced various underground groups and movements in America, particularly George Lippard's Brotherhood of the Union, an American attempt to replicate the political secret societies that influenced the European Revolutions of 1848. The book traces the Brotherhood's various manifestations, including the Knights of the Golden Circle (out of which developed the Ku Klux Klan), and the Confederate secret groups through which John Wilkes Booth and others attempted to undermine the Union. It shows how, in the years leading up to the Civil War, these clandestine organizations exacerbated existing sectional tensions and may have played a part in key events such as John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, Lincoln's election, and the Southern secession process of 1860–1861.

The Present State of Evaluation of Critical Thinking in Algebra and Geometry

1950 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 143-148
Author(s):  
M. F. Rosskopf
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Secret Society ◽  
Training School ◽  
New Members ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
History Of ◽  
Clear Thinking ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Mind

Very early in the history of people much attention was given to the study of mathematics; practical applications alone made study necessary, but mathematical investigations were carried on, too, for their own sake. The secret society of the Pythagoreans (about 500 B. C.) set up a training school for the instruction of new members. The curriculum consisted of four subjects:—geometry, arithmetic, astronomy, and music. It was Plato (about the fourth century B. C.) who hung over his academic door a sign that read, “Let no one who is unacquainted with geometry enter here.” The belief that a study of mathematics led to clear thinking and logical marshalling of ideas is evident from the titles of books popular in their day; there was Alcuin's (735-804) Problems for Quickening the Mind and Robert Recorde's (1510-1558) The Whetstone of Witte.

PARISIAN THEOLOGY, BROTHEHOOD OF FOTIY (PHOTIUS) AND NICHOLAY POLTORATSKY. MEANINGS AND SYMBOLS

2020 ◽  
pp. 20-40
Author(s):  
Inna V. Golubovych ◽  
◽  
Viktor L. Levchenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Secret Society ◽  
World War ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Religious Order ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
Second World ◽  
Personal Collection

One of the bright and dramatic pages in the history of Parisian Orthodox Theology is the activity of the Fotiy`s Brotherhood (1925 (1923?) – 1980s). However, it has not yet been studied completely. The publication, which is based in particular on archival documents from the personal collection of Nicholay Poltoratsky’s family (1909–1990), who at a certain stage acted as the head of the secret society. Nicholay Poltoratsky returned to Homeland after the Second World War and ended up in Odessa, becoming a center of intellectual and spiritual attraction. Our task is to contribute to the reconstruction of the history of the Fotiy`s Brotherhood. That plot is very important for the history of the Russian religious and philosophical Renaissance. The Brotherhood at different times included A. Stavrovsky, V. Lossky, E. Kovalevsky, P. Kovalevsky, M. Kovalevsky, L. Uspensky, I. Lagovsky, G. Krug, A. Bloom and others. Members of the Brotherhood proposed the project of “Latin Rite Orthodoxy” with elements of the ancient Gallican rite. Such a project was implemented in several French parishes, of which some are still active now. The focus of the paper is on a theoretical analysis of the project to create an Orthodox religious order, connecting loyalty to the Orthodox tradition and an оrientation to the ancient Gallican liturgical rite of the Christian church before the time of schism.

A Secret Society History of the Civil War by Mark A. Lause (review)

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 393-396
Author(s):  
Michael DeGruccio
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Secret Society ◽  
History Of

A Secret Society History of the Civil War

2012 ◽  
Vol 99 (3) ◽  
pp. 926-927
Author(s):  
A. Pflugrad-Jackisch
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Secret Society ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals The Philiki Etaireia Revisited: In Search of Contexts, National and International

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 171
Author(s):  
Nassia Yakovaki
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Political History ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Secret Society ◽  
National Narrative ◽  
Age Of Revolution ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
History Of

It is perhaps not an exaggeration to say that studies on the Philiki Etaireia (1814-1821), a field of historical research that has evolved in a rather marginal, if not erratic way, are lately at a standstill; at the same time, however, the Age of Revolution – and, more to the point, the until recently understudied post-Napoleonic decades – is the object of a remarkable renewal of interest among historians internationally. This essay tries to place the life and deeds of the Philiki Etaireia once more on the agenda of social and political history of the period, not only of the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire, but also of post-Napoleonic Europe, by revisiting the case of this (much acclaimed in the Greek national narrative) secret society and bringing forward possible new contexts for better understanding its emergence and development.

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