En: Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism
Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism
Published twice a year, in spring and autumn (fall), the Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism is an interdisciplinary academic journal that seeks to appeal to a broad-based scholarly audience in the domains of arts, humanities and social sciences.
The Journal is concerned with promoting newly emerging scholarly research in all aspects of the history and material culture of the associational lives of men and women from the Middle Ages to the present day, not least in the ways they have acted to shape regional, national and transnational identities. Through a rigorous peer-review process the Journal’s editorial board of leading international scholars presents authoritative cutting-edge research from around the globe and from across and within many subject disciplines.
The establishment of the Journal is a response to a decade of increasing global scholarly interest about freemasonry and fraternalism – an interest that has been fostered not only by the increasing ease of access to online sources, but also by the spirit of openness that now directs the policies of many previously closed archives and collections. The study of freemasonry and fraternalism is no longer the sole preserve of inquisitive freemasons or conspiracy theorists, but is now integral to the academic study of the Modern Era.
A notable feature of the Journal is the Review section, which is an indispensable and lively arbiter of important new books about the associational world; always erudite and authoritative, and occasionally pungent, but certainly never dull.
The Journal has no formal alliances or allegiances to any specific scholarly organization, masonic body, or educational institution and represents no single critical, historical, political, social, or theoretical position.
