Religious Dimensions of Conspiracy Theories: Comparing and Connecting Old and New Trends

ISBN-13: 9780367637705 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 328 str.

Piraino, Francesco

Opis

Religious Dimensions of Conspiracy Theories contributes to the study of conspiracy culture by analysing the religious and esoteric dimensions of conspiracy theories.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Religious Dimensions of Conspiracy Theories  Part I: Reading History with New (Conspiracist) Lenses  2. The Bacchanalian Conspiracy: From the Paranoid Style to Conspirituality  3. Magic, Money, Ink, and Blood: Mediating the Social Body in the Case of Simon of Trent  4. Anti-Masonic Conspiracy Theories and Universal Religion: From the French Revolution to the New World Order  5. Conceptualising Secret Societies and Conspiracy Theories in Imperial Japan: From Countering Socialism to Rescuing Jewish Refugees  Part II: Connecting New Phenomena with Old Trends  6. Esoteric Nationalism and Conspiracism in WWI  7. ‘Going to the Ends of the Earth to Unmask Conspiracy’: Radical Scepticism in the Modern Gnostic Narratives of the Lectorium Rosicrucianum  8. ‘Toxic Positivity’: From New Thought to Donald Trump  9. Conspiracy Theory, Altered States and Alternative Community: Conspiracy Beliefs in a Sample of Nordic Yoga-Practitioners  10. Conspiracy Theories in Africa: A Continuum of Narratives about Evil Agents  11. When Conspiracy Meets Faith: Making Sense of Tragic Events in Bucharest, Romania  12. Jesuit Fathers, Maronites, Muslim ‘Ulamā’ and Islamists: The Role of Religious Institutions and Organisations in the Spread of the Judeo-Masonic Conspiracy Myth in the Middle East  13. The Eurasia Network: Riding the Conspiracist Tiger in Contemporary Italy  14. Qvangelicalism: QAnon as a Hyper-Real Religion