Doctorat en philosophie et lettres / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

L’architecture des temples maçonniques constitue un patrimoine vivant, mais peu étudié, notamment dans le cadre de la recherche universitaire. Elle présente pourtant un double intérêt. En tant qu’objet d’étude, tout d’abord, elle offre des caractéristiques formelles, spatiales et stylistiques suffisamment marquantes pour qu’on puisse souhaiter en faire la description, en cherchant à la fois à en définir les limites et les invariants, et aussi à en cerner les différentes variations au travers de tropismes liés à l’histoire, la géographie ou la culture dans laquelle elle se développe. Cette architecture présente également un intérêt en tant que sujet de recherche : elle est strictement dictée par des rituels précis qui en définissent à la fois la forme, l’organisation et l’usage. De ce point de vue, cette étude permet tout d’abord de revisiter les notions de type et de modèle, telles qu’elles avaient été définies dans le cadre de l’analyse typo-morphologique développée par la critique italienne dans les années 1970. Elle permet ensuite d’établir un lien entre l’usage, ici codifié par le rituel, et la forme architecturale, et de proposer l’esquisse d’une théorie de la concrétion, dans laquelle la forme de l’espace architectural serait comprise comme le résultat d’une pratique ritualisée de l’espace. La thèse se développe en trois parties. La première partie, qui s’ouvre sur un état de l’art, est consacrée à l’approche méthodologique et aux développements de la recherche, grâce notamment aux moyens liés aux technologies numériques et à l’informatique, qui ont permis l’élaboration du corpus de la recherche. La seconde partie est consacrée à l’analyse de ce corpus, qui s’appuie sur la dimension sociale, symbolique et architecturale du temple maçonnique. Enfin, la troisième partie propose un extrait du catalogue raisonné du corpus. Cet extrait recouvre l’Europe et l’Amérique du Nord. / The architecture of the Masonic temples is a living heritage, but little studied, particularly in the context of academic research. Yet it has two advantages. As an object of study, first of all, it offers formal, spatial and sufficiently significant stylistic characteristics that we may wish to describe, seeking both to define the limits and invariants and also to identify different variations across tropisms related to history, geography or the culture in which it develops. This architecture offers also an interest as a subject of research: it is strictlydictated by specific rituals that define both form, organization and use. From this perspective, this study provides first revisit the concepts of type and model, as they were defined within the framework of the typo-morphological analysis developed by the Italian criticism in the 1970s. It establishes also a link between the use, here codifiedrituals, and architectural form, and suggest the outlines of a theory of concretion, within the form of architectural spaces would be understood as the result of ritualized practices of space. The thesis is developed in three parts. The first part, which opens a state ofknowledge, is devoted to the methodological approach and research developments, thanks to the means of digital technology and computers, which enabled the developmentof the corpus of research. The second part is devoted to the analysis of this corpus, based on the social, architectural and symbolic aspects of the Masonic Temple. The third part provides an extract of the of the corpus. This excerpt covers Europe and North America.

This study explores the themes of the experience of belonging to a male-only society, namely Freemasonry, by allowing members of the Freemasons to tell their stories of their experience of belonging to Freemasonry. The epistemological framework was that of phenomenology, using a qualitative research design. The study involved a series of in-depth individual interviews. Their stories provide alternative ways of perceiving men’s experience of belonging to a male-only society, focusing on the Freemasons. Several common themes were also identified in the participants’ interviews. The researcher found that the history of the Freemasons plays a large role in the member’s justification for female exclusion. Gender, as well as the members need to belong to a male- only society, gave the researcher some insight into their experience of belonging to a male-only society. The themes that were articulated in the study may be helpful in trying to understand the experiences of belonging to a male-only society. / Dissertation (MA (Clinical Psychology)--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Psychology / unrestricted

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The dissertation examines African American Freemasons throughout the South during the Jim Crow era. The secret nature of Prince Hall Affiliated Freemasonry (PHA) has hidden the contribution and activism of the organization and its members. I argue the organization is part of a web of networks that fought for civil and human rights for African Americans. Through PHA, members are cultivated into leaders, activists, businessmen; over the years, the members have created an initiatic identity that connected them to the African American community and humanity. The significance of my study is that I analyze PHA through a womanist lens and argue the organization has a diarchal gender relationship that allows women and men to take on leadership and activist roles that differed from the normative gender relationship of their time.

Following the appointment of its first aristocratic Grand Masters in the 1720s and in the wake of its connections to the scientific Enlightenment, ‘Free and Accepted’ Masonry rapidly became part of Britain’s national profile and the largest and arguably the most influential of Britain’s extensive clubs and societies. The new organisation did not evolve naturally from the mediaeval guilds and religious orders that pre-dated it, but was reconfigured radically by a largely self-appointed inner core. Freemasonry became a vehicle for the expression and transmission of the political and religious views of those at its centre, and for the scientific Enlightenment concepts that they championed. The ‘Craft’ also offered a channel through which many sought to realise personal aspirations: social, intellectual and financial. Through an examination of relevant primary and secondary documentary evidence, this thesis seeks to contribute to a broader understanding of contemporary English political and social culture, and to explore the manner in which Freemasonry became a mechanism that promoted the interests of the Hanoverian establishment and connected and bound a number of élite metropolitan and provincial figures. A range of networks centred on the aristocracy, parliament, the magistracy and the learned and professional societies are studied, and key individuals instrumental in spreading and consolidating the Masonic message identified. The thesis also explores the role of Freemasonry in the development of the scientific Enlightenment. The evidence suggests that Freemasonry should be recognised not only as the most prominent of the many eighteenth century fraternal organisations, but also as a significant cultural vector and a compelling component of the social, economic, scientific and political transformation then in progress.

Au carrefour entre sociologies de la connaissance, de l’éducation et politique, cette thèse étudie certaines pratiques sociales de travail collectif par la prise de parole, que l’ on qualifie de démocratiques, et dont la Franc-maçonnerie est un terrain pris à titre d’exemple. Historiquement élitiste dans son recrutement, celle-ci a connu lors du siècle dernier une forte démocratisation. Il en résulte aujourd’hui une population socialement très hétérogène. Abordant la maçonnerie en tant que dispositif pédagogique tacite, ce travail se propose d’étudier les processus sociologiques en œuvre dans l’appropriation sociale d’un travail basé sur l’abstraction et la tranférabilité de relations symboliques. L’analyse de matériaux (entretiens, productions écrites réalisées par les Franc-maçons, textes officiels) permet de mettre en lumière certaines caractéristiques de cet apprentissage : élection, déprofanation et amélioration, construites à travers la cumulativité du travail collectif et la possibilité de sa révision. L’enjeu de ce sujet dépasse de ce fait la question des loges maçonniques. A travers une approche de cette pédagogie tacite, on cherche à éclairer les enjeux de l’apprentissage en termes de production et reproduction des savoirs, autour de la question fondamentale du droit à l’amélioration dans les structures pédagogiques et de l’élaboration d’une normativité collective. / At the crossroad between sociology of knowledge, sociology of education and political sociology, this thesis examines certain social practices of collective work by public speaking of members, described as democratic. In this study, Freemasonry constitutes a revealing field of research. Historically characterised by a very elitist recruitment mode, Freemasonry has gone through a process of democratisation during the last century. As a result, Freemasonry shows much more social heterogeneity then before.. Considering Freemasonry as tacit pedagogic device, this research examines the sociological processes at work in the social appropriation of a practice based on abstraction and transferability of symbolic relations. The data analysis (interviews, written productions of masons, official texts) allows highlighting some specificities of this apprenticeship: election, déprofanation and improvement, which are built through the cumulativity of collective work and the possibility of revision. As a matter of fact, the interest of this study goes far beyond the Masonic lodges themselves. Using the concept of a tacit pedagogy, what is at stake is apprenticeship as production and reproduction of knowledge, including the fundamental issues of the right to improve within pedagogic structures and the elaboration of a collective normativity.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed Die Zauberflöte in the last year of his life. It was intended in part to glorify Freemasonry as a new Emperor, more hostile to the Masons, took his office. After a brief survey of his life and works, this paper shows how Mozart used number symbolism in the opera, and will equip the reader with an understanding of this as practiced by the Freemasons. Further, it will show how Mozart associated the characters of the opera with specific musical tones. It will expose a deeper understanding of the question of meaning in word and text in his opera. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2016. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T18:22:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Alexandre Trigo Veiga.pdf: 1466775 bytes, checksum: 8e4e9f53a00dd032cb2884acc23dcdcf (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-09-16 / The present research was developed in order to present an alternative methodology for gathering and identifying terms from a specific area of studies in comparable corpora in Portuguese and English using computer tools designed for linguistic analysis. The selected specific area is Symbolic Freemasonry and the compiled corpora for this study are manuals and rituals used by freemasons during their works that are available in the Internet. The computer tools used for this research are the WordSmith Tools 6.0, the zExtractor and the SketchEngine. The terms identified as a result of this research will provide relevant data for developing a bilingual glossary of Symbolic Freemasonry to aid translators and proof-readers who specialize in masonic works / Esta pesquisa foi desenvolvida com o objetivo de apresentar uma metodologia alternativa para reunir e identificar termos de uma área específica em corpora comparáveis em português e inglês usando ferramentas computacionais de análise linguística. A área escolhida é a de Maçonaria Simbólica e os corpora compilados para este estudo são manuais e rituais utilizados pelos maçons em seus trabalhos disponíveis na Internet. As ferramentas computacionais usadas nesta pesquisa são o WordSmith Tools 6.0, o zExtractor e o SketchEngine. Os termos identificados como resultado desta pesquisa fornecerão dados relevantes para a elaboração de um glossário bilíngue para auxiliar tradutores e revisores que se especializam em obras maçônicas