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

1st Edition

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

Edited By Francesco Piraino, Marco Pasi, Egil Asprem Copyright 2023
306 Pages 2 Color & 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

306 Pages 2 Color & 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

306 Pages 2 Color & 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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. 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... Read more

Introduction: Religious Dimensions of Conspiracy Theories
FRANCESCO PIRAINO, MARCO PASI, AND EGIL ASPREM

PART I
Reading History with New (Conspiracist) Lenses

  1. The Bacchanalian Conspiracy: From the Paranoid Styleo Conspirituality
    VICTORIA E. PAGÁN

  2. Magic, Money, Ink, and Blood: Mediating the Social Body in the Case of Simon of Trent
    EMILY POTHAST

  3. Anti-Masonic Conspiracy Theories and Universal Religion: From the French Revolution to the New World Order
    TOMASZ SZYMAŃSKI

  4. Jewish Refugees
    AVERY MORROW

    5. PART II
    Connecting New Phenomena with Old Trends

  5. Esoteric Nationalism and Conspiracism in WWI
    AARON FRENCH

  6. ‘Going to the Ends of the Earth to Unmask Conspiracy’: Radical Skepticism in the Modern Gnostic Narratives of the Lectorium Rosicrucianum
    NIKLAS NENZÉN

  7. ‘Toxic Positivity’: From New Thought to Donald Trump
    ALLISON P. COUDERT

  8. Conspiracy Theory, Altered States, and Alternative Community: Conspiracy Beliefs in a Sample of Nordic Yoga-Practitioners
    ASBJØRN DYRENDAL AND INGA BÅRDSEN TØLLEFSEN

  9. Conspiracy Theories in Africa: A Continuum of Narratives About Evil Agents
    JOHANNEKE KROESBERGEN-KAMPS

  10. When Conspiracy Meets Faith: Making Sense of Tragic Events in Bucharest, Romania
    GIUSEPPE TATEO

  11. Jesuit Fathers, Maronites, Muslim ʿUlamāʾ, and Islamists: The Role of Religious Institutions and Organisations in the Spread of the Judeo-Masonic Conspiracy Myth in the Middle East
    BARBARA DE POLI

  12. The Eurasia Network: Riding the Conspiracist Tiger in Contemporary Italy
    FRANCESCO PIRAINO

  13. Qvangelicalism: QAnon as a Hyper-Real Religion
    MARC-ANDRÉ ARGENTINO

Biography

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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