Order of the Golden Age
Abbreviation | OGA |
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Formation | 1895 |
Founders | Henry John Williams |
Dissolved | 1959 |
Purpose | Promotion of animal rights |
Region | Worldwide |
The Order of the Golden Age (OGA) was an international animal rights society with a Christian, theosophical and vegetarian emphasis, which existed between 1895 and 1959.
History
The Order of the Golden Age (OGA) was founded by Rev.
The renewed OGA's headquarters were located at Beard's residence in
By 1909, the OGA was active in 47 countries, and its headquarters transferred to London.[2] The OGA organised successful concerts at the Royal Albert Hall.[9] The OGA even claimed to have converted Pope Pius X to the vegetarian diet during 1907.[10] In 1938, the Order decamped to South Africa upon the death of their official Founder and President, Sidney Hartnoll Beard, to become forgotten about by the vegetarian movement until the 21st century.
Legacy
A commemorative website was created in 2006 and the OGA was mentioned in a modern published history of the vegetarian movement a year later.[1][2] A large collection of volumes of The Herald of the Golden Age were digitised by the Internet Archive in 2008.
See also
Notes
- ^ At the time, the term 'fruitarian' was used with a variety of meanings, see e.g. "Oldfield's type of 'fruitarian dietary' was not a strict type of fruitarianism".
References
- ^ ISBN 978-1-84511-379-7
- ^ a b c Gilheany, John M. "The Order of the Golden Age: An Overview". The Order of the Golden Age. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
- ^ ISBN 978-0810304000
- ^ a b "Sidney H. Beard (1862-1938)". Order of the Golden Age. Retrieved August 10, 2019.
- ^ ISBN 978-1498505222
- ^ Stark, James F. (2018). Replace them by Salads and Vegetables: Dietary Innovation, Youthfulness, and Authority, 1900–1939. Global Food History 4 (2): 130-151. Accessed 28 December 2019
- ISBN 978-1498505222
- ISBN 978-1-137-55696-7
- ^ The Times, Tuesday, Nov 01, 1910; p. 16; Issue 39418.
- ^ The Herald of the Golden Age, July 1907, p. 132.
Further reading
- Gilheany, John M. (2010). Familiar Strangers: The Church and the Vegetarian Movement in Britain (1809-2009). Cardiff: Ascendant Press. ISBN 978-0-9552945-1-8.
- Calvert, Samantha Jane (2013). Eden's diet: Christianity and vegetarianism 1809 – 2009 (PhD thesis). University of Birmingham.
- Bates, A. W. H. (2017), Bates, A.W.H. (ed.), "A New Age for a New Century: Anti-Vivisection, Vegetarianism, and the Order of the Golden Age", Anti-Vivisection and the Profession of Medicine in Britain: A Social History, The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 69–98, ISBN 978-1-137-55697-4
External links
- Order of the Golden Age
- The Herald of the Golden Age - International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals