@article{711172,
      recid = {711172},
      author = {Hackett, David G.},
      title = {That religion in which all men agree : freemasonry in  American culture /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xii, 317 pages) :},
      abstract = {Book Description:  This powerful study weaves the story of  Freemasonry into the narrative of American religious  history. Freighted with the mythical legacies of  stonemasons' guilds and the Newtonian revolution, English  Freemasonry arrived in colonial America with a vast array  of cultural baggage, which was drawn on, added to, and  transformed during its sojourn through American culture.  David G. Hackett argues that from the 1730s through the  early twentieth century the religious worlds of an evolving  American social order broadly appropriated the beliefs and  initiatory practices of this all-male society. For much of  American history, Freemasonry was both counter and  complement to Protestant churches, as well as a forum for  collective action among racial and ethnic groups outside  the European American Protestant mainstream. Moreover, the  cultural template of Freemasonry gave shape and content to  the American "public sphere." By including a group not  usually seen as a carrier of religious beliefs and rituals,  Hackett expands and complicates the terrain of American  religious history by showing how Freemasonry has  contributed to a broader understanding of the multiple  influences that have shaped religion in American culture.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/711172},
}