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Freemasonry: A Study of a Phenomenon
Published in Paperback by Harvill Pr (2000)
Authors: A. M. Piatigorskii and Alexander Piatigorsky
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Dense and opaque, but with some interesting parts.
I gather from reading this book that the author has developed and previously published some theoretical or psychological model for analyzing religions. In this volume, he applies his analytical approach to the question of whether Freemasonry is a religion, which seems appropriate enough given Freemasonry's ritual and esoteric content. His explanation of his model and its jargon is even more impenetrable than the jargon itself. His discussion of his results suffers accordingly. The book becomes a bit more worthwhile in discussing why men join the fraternity (at least in England where his research was done), why they stay, who they are, what they get out of it, and what they do behind those closed doors. His unsurprising conclusion, as near as I can tell, is the same answer you would get by asking any random Freemason whether the fraternity was a religion.

(This book was originally published in hardcover under the title "Who's Afraid of Freemasons?".


The Buddhist Philosophy of Thought
Published in Hardcover by Barnes & Noble (1984)
Author: Alexander Piatigorsky
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Buddhist Studies: Ancient and Modern (Collected Papers on South Asia, No. 4)
Published in Hardcover by Barnes & Noble (1983)
Authors: Philip Denwood, Alexander Piatigorsky, and A. M. Piatigorskii
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The Diary of a Bolshevik's Wife
Published in Hardcover by Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group) (18 February, 1993)
Authors: Yulia Pyatnitskaya, David Floyd, and Alexander Piatigorsky
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