Freemasonry in the Haitian Imaginary (Theion Publishing, 2026) Fine Hardcover Edition

Leah Gordon & Katherine Smith (editors). Freemasonry in the Haitian Imaginary. Munich: Theion Publishing, 2026. Fine hardback edition. 320 pages. Limited to 735 pages.

Condition: New

Description from the publisher: 

Freemasonry in the Haitian Imaginary is a groundbreaking collaboration between scholar Katherine Smith (ed.) and photographer Leah Gordon, unveiling one of Haiti’s most intricate symbolic worlds. Bringing together rigorous research and revelatory imagery, the book shows how Freemasonry became woven into Haiti’s revolutionary origins, political imagination, and spiritual life — not as a European import but as both a universal brotherhood and a tradition transformed and made distinctly Haitian.

Smith’s introduction traces how Enlightenment ideals traveled through the Caribbean and were reshaped by free people of color, political leaders, and ritual practitioners. She shows how Masonic symbols — columns, compasses, the all-seeing eye — became signs of belonging, aspiration, and spiritual potency. Gordon’s photographs deepen this understanding, revealing a living symbolic ecology: temple doors, embroidered aprons, carved emblems, and vernacular architecture where Masonic imagery appears in forms both familiar and wholly reimagined.

Additional contributions by Dr. Henrik Bogdan, Dr. Gaétan Mentor (introducing the concept of the “Black Janus”), and Smith’s intimate conversations with artist and Freemason Ernst Dominique expand the journey into the realms of history, Vodou, political struggle, visionary experience, and the craft of sacred objects.

Presented in an elegant, large 24 × 30 cm format, this volume stands as both a major scholarly contribution and a striking aesthetic object — essential for readers seeking to understand Haiti beyond familiar narratives, through the powerful symbols that continue to shape its community, history, and spirit.

Bibliographic Details  

• 320 pages, measuring 240 x 300 mm.
• Printed on premium 150gsm wood-free silk glossy paper for excellent photo reproduction.
• Features Peyer Surbalin endpapers, headbands and a ribbon marker.
• Includes more than 155 full-page color and black/white photographs and illustrations.

Fine Hardcover Edition 

• Bound in high quality Peyer Comtesse fine cloth, manufactured in Germany.
• Features a printed and embossed cover, lettering on rounded spine.
• Limited to 735 copies.