Ok guys, this may be a bit of a stretch, but please bear with me.
Im looking for some books on either or both of the following subjects:
An entry level well researched history and explanation of "secret societies" that is not totally /x/ tier conspiracies.
A book on the history of religion, with a focus on the role that religion has played within society as a stabilizing and/or controlling force. Again hoping to avoid fedora tipping "No god no masters!" type literature.
Thanks
Gravity's Rainbow
The Damned by Joris-Karl Huysmans.
Also, look for some Papus' writings on secret societies. Those XIX's "magicians" were good at historical researchs.
>>7509326
My friend did tell me about some Japanese book about the influential and secretive Black Dragon Society.
Literally The Illuminatus! Trilogy
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>>7509326
I'm in one. AMA.
America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones by Antony Sutton
>>7509326
Not entirely along your guidelines, but you might like "I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed By Me"
DOI: 10.3366/shr.2011.0037
DOI: 10.1093/jsh/shs026
http://www.jstor.org/stable/4028607
http://www.jstor.org/stable/23011747
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100490100
http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300117141
The Friars: The Impact of the Mendicant Orders on Medieval Society
after you find and read
>An entry level well researched history and explanation of "secret societies"
(and are still interested in the topic) you should read Eco's Foucault's Pendulum. You'd probably enjoy it a lot.
>>7509563
Which one
>>7509738
4chan
>>7509326
The Golden Bough
Manley p hall
Secret histories
>>7510704
Secret teachings of all ages rather
>>7509326
The Secret History of the World by Mark Booth
