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This is the first-ever in-depth study of the Soka Gakkai Buddhists in the United States of America. Drawing on new and revealing surveys and interviews, it paints a fascinating picture of one of the fastest-growing religions in the world.
Despite acute labour shortages during the Second World War,
Canadian employers--with the complicity of state
officials--discriminated against workers of African, Asian, and
Eastern and Southern European origin, excluding them from both
white collar and skilled jobs. Jobs and Justice argues that, while
the war intensified hostility and suspicion toward minority
workers, the urgent need for their contributions and the
egalitarian rhetoric used to mobilize the war effort also created
an opportunity for minority activists and their English Canadian
allies to challenge discrimination.Juxtaposing a discussion of
state policy with ideas of race and citizenship in Canadian civil
society, Carmela K. Patrias shows how minority activists were able
to bring national attention to racist employment discrimination and
obtain official condemnation of such discrimination. Extensively
researched and engagingly written, Jobs and Justice offers a new
perspective on the Second World War, the racist dimensions of state
policy, and the origins of human rights campaigns in Canada.
From its traces in cryptic images on the dollar bill to Dan Brown's
The Lost Symbol, Freemasonry has long been one of the most
romanticized secret societies in the world. But a simple fact
escapes most depictions of this elite brotherhood: There are women
Freemasons, too. In this groundbreaking ethnography, Lilith Mahmud
takes readers inside Masonic lodges in contemporary Italy, where
she observes the many ritualistic and fraternal bonds forged among
women initiates of this elite and esoteric society. Offering a
tantalizing look behind lodge doors, The Brotherhood of Freemason
Sisters unveils a complex culture of discretion in which Freemasons
simultaneously reveal some truths and hide others. Women - one of
Freemasonry's best-kept secrets - are often upper class and highly
educated but paradoxically antifeminist, and their self-cultivation
through the Masonic path is an effort to embrace the deeply
gendered ideals of fraternity. Mahmud unravels this contradiction
at the heart of Freemasonry: how it was at once responsible for
many of the egalitarian concepts of the Enlightenment and yet has
always been, and in Italy still remains, extremely exclusive. The
result is not only a thrilling look at an unfamiliar-and
surprisingly influential-world, but a reevaluation altogether of
the modern values and ideals that we now take for granted.
Freemasonry was a major cultural and social phenomenon and a key
element of the Enlightenment. It was to have an international
influence across the globe. This primary resource collection charts
a key period in the development of organized Freemasonry
culminating in the formation of a single United Grand Lodge of
England. The secrecy that has surrounded Freemasonry has made it
difficult to access information and documents about the
organization and its adherents in the past. This collection is the
result of extensive archival research and transcription and
highlights the most significant themes associated with Freemasonry.
The documents are drawn from masonic collections, private archives
and libraries worldwide. The majority of these texts have never
before been republished. Documents include rituals (some written in
code), funeral services, sermons, songs, certificates, an engraved
list of lodges, letters, pamphlets, theatrical prologues and
epilogues, and articles from newspapers and periodicals. This
collection will enable researchers to identify many key masons for
the first time. It will be of interest to students of Freemasonry,
the Enlightenment and researchers in eighteenth-century studies.
In Gangs and Organized Crime, George W. Knox, Gregg W. Etter, and
Carter F. Smith offer an informed and carefully investigated
examination of gangs and organized crime groups, covering street
gangs, prison gangs, outlaw motorcycle gangs, and organized crime
groups from every continent. The authors have spent decades
investigating gangs as well as researching their history and
activities, and this dual professional-academic perspective informs
their analysis of gangs and crime groups. They take a
multidisciplinary approach that combines criminal justice, public
policy and administration, law, organizational behavior, sociology,
psychology, and urban planning perspectives to provide insight into
the actions and interactions of a variety of groups and their
members. This textbook is ideal for criminal justice and sociology
courses on gangs as well as related course topics like gang
behavior, gang crime and the inner city, organized crime families,
and transnational criminal groups. Gangs and Organized Crime is
also an excellent addition to the professional's reference library
or primer for the general reader. More information is available at
the supporting website - www.gangsandorganizedcrime.com
This book offers a comprehensive overview of electronic dance music
(EDM) and club culture. To do so, it interlinks a broad range of
disciplines, revealing their (at times vastly) differing
standpoints on the same subject. Scholars from such diverse fields
as cultural studies, economics, linguistics, media studies,
musicology, philosophy, and sociology share their perspectives. In
addition, the book features articles by practitioners who have been
active on the EDM scene for many years and discuss issues like
gender and diversity problems in general, and the effects of
gentrification on club culture in Berlin. Although the book's main
focus is on Berlin, one of the key centers of EDM and club culture,
its findings can also be applied to other hotspots. Though
primarily intended for researchers and students, the book will
benefit all readers interested in obtaining an interdisciplinary
overview of research on electronic dance music.
'My favorite read of 2022, I am recommending it to everyone I
know.' Reader Review Three strangers all caught in the deep end...
but can they help each other float through? After tragically losing
her husband and being left a single mother to two children,
Gabriella has only one escape for herself - swimming at a local
London lido to clear her mind. A constant stream of both new and
familiar faces visit the lido like Gabriella - but she doesn't
suspect any are suffering quite like her, until she meets Helen -
who swims to escape her emotionless husband, and Ian - who feels
lost in the deep end after becoming unemployed and unable to tell
his husband. Grateful for new companionship, these three strangers
decide to make their friendship into something more permanent: The
Lonely Hearts Lido Club. An uplifting, captivating read about the
power of friendship - fans of Hazel Prior and Mike Gayle will adore
this. Readers are loving joining The Lonely Hearts Lido Club: 'I'm
in awe of how Charlie Lyndhurst manages to tease out the
extraordinary from ordinary lives and make me like every single
character.' Sue Moorcroft, author of Summer at the French Cafe
'This was a wonderful story, full of emotion, hope and joy.' Reader
Review 'This was a truly beautiful book to read...full of emotion,
hope and joy.' Reader Review 'Three strangers bond at the pool and
form a friendship to circumvent their personal struggles. I really
enjoyed this book it's rare that you read a book about a true
friendship.' Reader Review 'Love how each of these ppl are dealing
with different heartbreaking situations, but manage to find a way
to come together to fight their grief, but find happiness together
instead. The writing is beautiful, the characters rich, and the
storyline keeps you wanting to turn the pages long into the night.'
Reader Review 'This was a great lighthearted beach read. About
strangers who connect in a beautiful way. It was a great read'
Reader Review 'This was an absolutely wonderful read! It was
exactly what I look for in a character driven novel - it made me
want to be a part of this little group so so badly!' Reader Review
'It was a beautiful read about friendship and how three people can
come together and support each other. Loved the writing style and I
think it's a perfect summer read.' Reader Review 'A real escapist
summer read...their friendship is uplifting and heart-warming. I
almost wish I was part of the Lonely Hearts Lido Club myself!'
Reader Review 'This was a super cute book...it was witty and
charming and I'd highly recommend!' Reader Review Praise for
Charlie Lyndhurst: 'A super cute read - you'll be laughing and
crying.' Mandy Baggott, author of Staying Out for the Summer
'Perfect meet cutes, great characters, a few laughs, and of course
that HEA that checks all the feelgood boxes' Reader Review 'I
adored every character... I truly loved it.' Reader Review 'I loved
jumping between these three stories. I really fell in love with all
of these characters.' Reader Review 'The story was fantastic. An
almost Love, Actually kind of vibe.' Reader Review 'Had me laughing
out loud. The writing is good, the storyline is adorable and the
characters are lovable.' Reader Review 'Didn't let me go until I
read the final page...I became fully invested in their lives.'
Reader Review 'A heartwarming story of staying true to yourself,
charming and heartfelt.' Reader Review
Its mysterious symbols and rituals had been used in secret for
centuries before Freemasonry revealed itself in London in 1717.
Once known, Freemasonry spread throughout the world and attracted
kings, emperors, and statesmen to take its sacred oaths. It also
attracted great revolutionaries such as George Washington and Sam
Houston in America, Juarez in Mexico, Garibaldi in Italy, and
Bolivar in South America. It was outlawed over the centuries by
Hitler, Mussolini, and the Ayatollah Khomeini. But where had this
powerful organization come from? What was it doing in those secret
centuries before it rose from underground more than 270 years ago?
And why was Freemasonry attacked with such intense hatred by the
Roman Catholic church?This amazing detective story answers those
questions and proves that the Knights Templar in Britain, fleeing
arrest and torture by pope and king, formed a secret society of
mutual protection that came to be called Freemasonry. Based on
years of meticulous research, this book solves the last remaining
mysteries of the Masons their secret words, symbols, and allegories
whose true meanings had been lost in antiquity. With a richly drawn
background of the bloody battles, the opportunistic kings and
scheming popes, the tortures and religious persecution throughout
the Middle Ages, it is an important book that may require that we
take a new look at the history of events leading to the Protestant
Reformation.
The Muslim Brotherhood in the West remains a mysterious entity. In
The Closed Circle, Lorenzo Vidino offers an unprecedented inside
view into how one of the world's most influential Islamist groups
operates. He marshals unique interviews with prominent former
members and associates from Europe, the United Kingdom, and North
America, shedding light on why and how people join and leave
Western outfits of the Muslim Brotherhood. Drawing on these
striking personal accounts, Vidino weaves together the experiences
of individuals who participated in and later renounced Brotherhood
groups. Their perspectives provide a wealth of new information
about the Brotherhood's secretive inner workings and the networks
that connecting the small yet highly organized cluster of
Brotherhood-influenced groups. The Closed Circle examines the
tactics the Brotherhood uses to recruit and retain participants as
well as how and why individuals make the difficult decision to
leave. Through the stories of diverse former members, Vidino paints
a portrait of a highly structured, tight-knit movement. His
unprecedented access and understanding of the group's activities
and motivations has significant policy implications concerning
Western Brotherhood organizations and also illuminates the
underlying mechanisms found in a range of extremist groups.
The Muslim Brotherhood in the West remains a mysterious entity. In
The Closed Circle, Lorenzo Vidino offers an unprecedented inside
view into how one of the world's most influential Islamist groups
operates. He marshals unique interviews with prominent former
members and associates from Europe, the United Kingdom, and North
America, shedding light on why and how people join and leave
Western outfits of the Muslim Brotherhood. Drawing on these
striking personal accounts, Vidino weaves together the experiences
of individuals who participated in and later renounced Brotherhood
groups. Their perspectives provide a wealth of new information
about the Brotherhood's secretive inner workings and the networks
that connecting the small yet highly organized cluster of
Brotherhood-influenced groups. The Closed Circle examines the
tactics the Brotherhood uses to recruit and retain participants as
well as how and why individuals make the difficult decision to
leave. Through the stories of diverse former members, Vidino paints
a portrait of a highly structured, tight-knit movement. His
unprecedented access and understanding of the group's activities
and motivations has significant policy implications concerning
Western Brotherhood organizations and also illuminates the
underlying mechanisms found in a range of extremist groups.
In Virtual Activism: Sexuality, the Internet, and a Social Movement
in Singapore, cultural anthropologist Robert Phillips provides a
detailed, yet accessible, ethnographic case study that looks at the
changes in LGBT activism in Singapore in the period 1993-2019.
Based on extensive fieldwork conducted with activist organizations
and individuals, Phillips illustrates key theoretical ideas -
including illiberal pragmatics and neoliberal homonormativity -
that, in combination with the introduction of the Internet, have
shaped the manner by which LGBT Singaporeans are framing and
subsequently claiming rights. Phillips argues that the activism
engaged in by LGBT Singaporeans for governmental and societal
recognition is in many respects virtual. His analysis documents how
the actions of activists have resulted in some noteworthy changes
in the lives of LGBT Singaporeans, but nothing as grand as some
would have hoped, thus indexing the "not quite" aspect of the
virtual. Yet, Virtual Activism also demonstrates how these actions
have encouraged LGBT Singaporeans to fight even harder for their
rights, signalling the "possibilities" that the virtual holds.
The American Fraternity is a mysterious photo and ritual book that
lifts the veil on America's oldest and most influential male
tradition. The text comes from a decaying ritual manual from a
prominent college fraternity. Seventy-five percent of modern U.S.
presidents, senators, justices, and executives have taken arcane
oaths of allegiance like the ones it contains. Six decades of red
ceremonial wax stain it like blood. It is filled with dark power.
The British Women's Institute is more often associated with jam and
Jerusalem than radical activity, but in this book Maggie Andrews
explores the WI's relationship with feminism from the formation of
the organisation in 1915 up to the eve of British feminism's
renaissance in the late 1960s. The book aims to challenge, not only
common sense perceptions about the Women's Institute but also those
about feminism, interrogating preoccupations with domestic spaces
and skills. This makes it is valuable reading for those interested
in both historical and contemporary feminism, as well as, more
broadly, the history of the twentieth century. Attention is given
to the female cultural space and the value system provided by the
WI, and the campaigns that articulated the needs of rural women and
attempted to meet them. In this 100th anniversary year of the
founding of the WI, this celebrated text is re-published in a new
and completely revised edition. Maggie Andrews's new afterword
considers the resurgence of interest in the WI amongst young women
in the twenty-first century, and the relationship between this and
the contemporary cultural enthusiasm for the domestic. There is
also a new chapter on the formation of the WI in the First World
War and substantial additions to existing chapters, including
discussions of the WI involvement with radio in the inter-war
years, and with evacuation in the Second World War.
Freemasonry played a major role in the economic and social life of
the Victorian era but it has received very little sustained
attention by academic historians. General histories of the period
hardly notice the subject while detailed studies mainly confine
themselves to its origins in the early eighteenth century and its
later institutional development. This book is the first sustained
and dispassionate study of the role of Freemasonry in everyday
social and economic life: why men joined, what it did for them and
their families, and how it affected the development of communities
and local economies. DOI: https://doi.org/10.47788/CCZO9779
The dazzling story of the early feminists who blazed a trail for
the movement's most radical ideas New York City, 1912: in downtown
Greenwich Village, a group of women gathered, all with a plan to
change the world. This was the first meeting of 'Heterodoxy', a
secret social club. Its members were passionate advocates of
women's suffrage, labour rights, equal marriage and free love. They
were socialites and socialists; reformers and revolutionaries;
artists, writers and scientists. Hotbed is the never-before-told
story of the club whose audacious ideas and unruly acts transformed
an international feminist agenda into a modern way of life. For
readers who loved Mo Moulton's Mutual Admiration Society and
Francesca Wade's Square Haunting.
"The Money Power" contains two classic books on geopolitics, "Pawns
in the Game" and "Empire of the City", which present the thesis
that the wars and revolutions of modern times have been engineered
by an English-speaking finance oligarchy to perpetuate their
balance of power over the world. They are the power behind the
British throne and the American government. Behind a mask of
liberal democracy, their method is subversion, destruction of the
old world order, and the humiliation of all rival power centres.
The money power controls world politics, behind the scenes and in
full view. It is a corrupt, cynical oligarchy that buys all the
governments it can - with their own funds. This power of money also
stares us in the face as a relentless effort to determine every
aspect of our family life, work and values, magnetising everything.
In "Pawns in the Game," Wm. Guy Carr sets out his famous Three
World Wars scenario. WWI was planned to topple the Russian and
German empires and set up the conflict between Fascism and
Bolshevism. WWII was to eliminate Germany as a world power and set
up Israel instead. WWIII, which we are now leading up to, is
planned to mutually annihilate Zionism and Islam in a global
conflict that bankrupts the entire world, ending in absolute rule
by the Money Masters. Carr emphasises the role of the Illuminati in
carrying out this plot, while Knuth's "Empire of the City" focuses
on the British Empire and its balance of power intrigues.
Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour has a claim to fame as the
birthplace of the worldwide scout movement. It was in August 1907
that Robert Baden Powell held an experimental camp for 20 boys on
the Island, following which scout troops were soon being formed all
over the country. The 3rd Parkstone troop, which came into being in
1931, was effectively a scion of the 4th Poole troop which dated
from 1917. This book tells the story of 3rd Parkstone from its
origins as part of 4th Poole through to the final cub meeting
before closure in 2006. Throughout its existence the group leaders
maintained detailed log books and photograph albums of the various
activities, and these have formed the basis of this lavishly
illustrated account. It tells how the group continued to function
during the dark days of the Second World War, and also shows that
3rd Parkstone kept up to date with changing lifestyles during the
later years of the 20th century. We are sure that this book will
bring back happy memories for anyone who has been involved with the
cub or scout movement in days gone by - and especially for anyone
who was fortunate enough to have belonged to 3rd Parkstone.
A history of Gloucestershire County Cricket Club
The nineteenth-century writer and Masonic scholar Kenneth R. H.
Mackenzie (1833 86) studied occultism with Frederick Hockley, and
met the famous French occultist Eliphas Levi in 1861. He was also
involved in the foundation of the Hermetic Order of the Golden
Dawn. This extensive encyclopaedia, first published in 1877, is
considered to be a classic Masonic reference work. It includes
detailed information on the symbols, rites, legends, terms, people
and places associated with Freemasonry. Some of the symbols are
illustrated and lists of rankings are given, including a
'traditional' list of Grand Masters of England that includes Sts
Swithin and Dunstan, Alfred the Great, Sir Christopher Wren (twice)
and Charles II. Mackenzie aims in his entries to be critical when
relevant: as he says in the Preface, freemasonry has 'received a
willing tribute' in his book, but he hints at difficulties
encountered in publishing material about a famously secretive
society.
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