MEDICINE – RELIGION – WITCHCRAFT: SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME

MEDICINE, RELIGION, WITCHCRAFT Rome, 30 th November – 1st December 2012 SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, CULTURES, RELIGIONS P.le A. Moro, 5  – 00185 Roma Rationale of the workshop Medicine, religion, witchcraft are three apparently different domains of ideas, knowledge, practices and beliefs, as well as three different domains of anthropological investigation characterized … Read more

Correspondences: an online Journal for the Academic Study of Western Esotericism

Correspondences. An online Journal for the Academic Study of Western Esotericism. Call for papers. Deadline: feb. 28, 2013. About Correspondences seeks to create a public academic forum devoted to discussion and exposition of issues and currents in the field commonly known as ‘Western Esotericism.’ The editors acknowledge that the use of “Western esotericism” as an … Read more

Keeping up appearances: taking care of Freemasons’ Hall

From building staircases and painting intricate floral plasterwork through to restoring corridors to their former glory, Stan, Damien and Stuart are part of a devoted team of craftsmen at Freemasons’ Hall who ensure that the building is preserved in all of its Art Deco grandeur. Luke Turton reports Stan Johnstone gazes at the exquisitely polished … Read more

A.G.Mackey – Selected Writings – Royal and Select

During research I was doing into the Holy Royal Arch of Jerusalem I came across a book in the George Holden library at the Solent Masonic Centre at Freshwater, Isle of Wight called the Book of the Chapter and printed in the United States in 1856, the Author being the famous American Masonic historian Albert Mackey MD. The book had been part of the collection of the Bombay Masonic Library in the latter half of the 19th century.