Abstract

MARTINEZ ESQUIVEL, Ricardo. A retrospective View of freemasons and free-masonry in Costa Rica. REHMLAC [online]. 2023, vol.15, n.2, pp.114-139. ISSN 1659-4223.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/rehmlac.v15i2.55352.

This paper analyzes the role of Freemasonry as an agent of change in the history of Costa Rica. The manuscript is divided into five parts: attempts to organize lodges in Central America before their establishment in 1865, supported by primary sources; the relationship Freemasonry and modernity; anti-masonry; the relationship between Freemasonry and esotericism; and the bibliography on Freemasonry in Costa Rica.

Keywords : State of the Art; Integrative and Systematic Review; Historiography; Methodology; Theory.

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