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Index
Cover Image
Title Page
Epigraph
Table of Contents
Foreword by Margaret C. Jacob, Ph.D.
Foreword by Arturo de Hoyos, 33°
Preface
Chapter 1: Freemasonry in Pioneer America
The First Lodges and Their Context
Freemasonry, Founding “Establishment” and Power
Lafayette, Freemasonry, and American Independence
Chapter 2: At the Order’s Origins
At the Order’s Origins, Once upon a Time in London . . .
Chapter 3: The American Spiritual Infusion and Freemasonry
Ethnology, Sociology, and Evolutions
The Morgan Affair and the Anti-Masonic Movement
Masonry, Churches, and Sects
Chapter 4: The Masonic Tradition
The Initiatory Progression
The American Masonic Administrative Structures Put into Perspective
American Freemasonry Expresses Itself through Social Networks
An Exceptionally Rich Architectural Heritage
Chapter 5: Black American Freemasonry
Relations between White and Black Masons
Chapter 6: The Charity of an Order Challenged by Change
The Para-Masonic Organizations
Chapter 7: American Masonry Confronted by the Initiation of Women
Chapter 8: Relations and Ruptures with French Freemasonry
On the Close and Often Tumultuous Franco-American Relations
Chapter 9: French Freemasonry in North America, Yesterday and Today
Quebec, Canada, and Its Masonic Environment at Its Beginnings
The Jurisdiction of the High Grades of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite in Quebec
Chapter 10: A Little American Masonic Perspective in a Changing World
Chapter 11: Is the Overall Decline in Membership the Herald of Profound Changes?
The Demographic Pressure of Immigration and the Difficulty in Predicting Its Effects
Afterword: Freemasonry in North America by John L. Cooper III
Appendices
Appendix I: Statistical Studies of the Evolution of the Membership of American and Canadian Grand Lodges
Appendix II: American Demographic Studies Sources: U.S. Census Bureau and the Washington Post
Appendix III: Speech on the Occasion of the Commemoration of the Twentieth Anniversary of the Lighting of the Fires (May 3, 2009)
Appendix IV: Sacramento Seminar of 2002, Organized by the Grand Lodge of California
Appendix V: Geneva Declaration (May 7, 2005)
Appendix VI: Declaration of Basel (June 10, 2012)
Appendix VII: Declaration of Vienna (January 29, 2014)
Appendix VIII: Extracts from the Report of the Commission on Information for Recognition of the American Grand Lodges at the Conference of Baltimore in 2014
Appendix IX: Letter of the Sovereign Grand Commander Alain de Keghel to the Northern Jurisdiction
Appendix X: Thirty-fifth Anniversary of the George Washington Union
Appendix XI: George Washington Union: A Progressive American Obedience
Footnotes
Endnotes
Bibliography
About the Author
About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company
Books of Related Interest
Copyright & Permissions
Index of Names
Subject Index
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