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

Editat de Francesco Piraino, Marco Pasi, Egil Asprem
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 mai 2024
Religious Dimensions of Conspiracy Theories contributes to the study of conspiracy culture by analysing the religious and esoteric dimensions of conspiracy theories.
The book examines both historical and contemporary examples to explore transnational and transhistorical continuities between religious doctrines, eschatologies, and conspiracy theories. It draws on a broad range of disciplinary insights from historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and religious studies scholars. The book has a global focus and features case studies from North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa.
This book will be of great interest to researchers of conspiracy theories, esotericism, extremism, and religion
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367638436
ISBN-10: 0367638436
Pagini: 306
Ilustrații: 20
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Conspiracy Theories

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

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

Notă biografică

Francesco Piraino is Postdoctoral Scholar at Ca’ Foscari University, Italy, and the Director of the Centre of Comparative Studies of Spiritualties and Civilisations at the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice, Italy.
Marco Pasi is Associate Professor in the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is a founding member of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE).
Egil Asprem is Professor in the History of Religions, with a focus on esotericism, new religious movements, alternative spiritualities, and the cognitive science of religion, at Stockholm University, Sweden. He is editor-in-chief of Aries: Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism.

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