The powers of political secrecy and social spectacle have been
taken to surreal extremes recently. Witness the twin terrors of a
president who refuses to disclose dealings with foreign powers
while the private data of ordinary citizens is stolen and marketed
in order to manipulate consumer preferences and voting outcomes. We
have become accustomed to thinking about secrecy in political terms
and personal privacy terms. In this bracing, new work, Hugh Urban
wants us to focus these same powers of observation on the role of
secrecy in religion. With Secrecy, Urban investigates several
revealing instances of the power of secrecy in religion, including
nineteenth-century Scottish Rite Freemasonry, the sexual magic of a
Russian-born Parisian mystic; the white supremacist BruderSchweigen
or "Silent Brotherhood" movement of the 1980s, the Five Percenters,
and the Church of Scientology. An electrifying read, Secrecy is the
culmination of decades of Urban's reflections on a vexed,
ever-present subject.
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