Western Esotericism and Rituals of Initiation Dr H. SmithHistorical exploration of Masonic rituals of initiation. For more than three hundred years the practice of Masonic rituals of initiation has been part of Western culture, spreading far beyond the boundaries of traditional Freemasonry. Henrik Bogdan explores the historical development of these rituals and their relationship with Western esotericism. Beginning with the Craft degrees of Freemasonry the blueprints, as it were, of all later Masonic rituals
Pseira VIII presents the results from the corollary studies that accompany the surface survey
Grand-Gugignol Cinema and the Horror Genre maps important contributions of the Parisian Grand-Guignol theatre’s Golden Age as theoretical considerations of embodiment and affect in the development of horror cinema in the twentieth century
They are mentors to other artists
Looking at the actual negotiation process and the political and economic constraints negotiators operate under
A re-evaluation of the Northern Ireland peace process
The statues
This book is the story of British consuls at the edge of the British and Chinese empires
planes and lorries that move the goods we buy around the world or the services we consume either physically or digitally
data and metadata in libraries and other cultural heritage organisations
both devoted fencers and amateur historians
transnationalism and translation
these essays offer an original and powerful statement on the nature of film and the intimate relation of what the author calls "film imagination" to our lives as human beings in the world