Handbook of Conspiracy Theory and Contemporary Religion.

Handbook of Conspiracy Theory and Contemporary Religion.

Conspiracy theories are a ubiquitous feature of our times. The Handbook of Conspiracy Theories and Contemporary Religion is the first reference work to offer a comprehensive, transnational overview of this phenomenon along with in-depth discussions of how conspiracy theories relate to religion(s). B...

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Main Author: Asbjørn Dyrendal; David G. Robertson; Egil Asprem (Editors)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2018.

Series: Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion 17.
Brill's Companions to Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy Online I, ISBN: 9789004389434.

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Cults.
Conspiracy theories.

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Call Number: BP603 .H355 2018

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505 0 0 |t Front Matter --   |t Copyright Page --   |t Contents --   |t List of Authors --   |t Introducing the Field: Conspiracy Theory in, about, and as Religion /  |r David G. Robertson , Egil Asprem and Asbjørn Dyrendal --   |t Explanations --   |t Conspiracy Theories and the Study of Religion(s): What We are Talking about, and Why it is Important /  |r Asbjørn Dyrendal , Egil Asprem and David G. Robertson --   |t Rational Enchantments: Conspiracy Theory between Secular Scepticism and Spiritual Salvation /  |r Stef Aupers and Jaron Harambam --   |t Is a Belief in Providence the Same as a Belief in Conspiracy? /  |r Brian L. Keeley --   |t Are Conspiracy Theories a Surrogate for God? /  |r Michael Wood and Karen Douglas --   |t A Web of Conspiracy? Internet and Conspiracy Theory /  |r Joseph E. Uscinski , Darin DeWitt and Matthew D. Atkinson --   |t Correspondences --   |t The Satanism Scare in Apartheid South Africa /  |r Nicky Falkof --   |t "Trust Me, You Can't Trust Them": Stigmatised Knowledge in Cults and Conspiracies /  |r Amanda van Eck Duymaer van Twist and Suzanne Newcombe --   |t Popular Music, Conspiracy Culture, and the Sacred /  |r Christopher Partridge --   |t Close Companions? Esotericism and Conspiracy Theories /  |r Egil Asprem and Asbjørn Dyrendal --   |t The Counter-Elite: Strategies of Authority in Millennial Conspiracism /  |r David G. Robertson --   |t Locations --   |t Buddhism Endangered by Hidden Enemies: Conspiracy Narratives in Sri Lankan Buddhist Present and Past /  |r Sven Bretfeld --   |t Buddhist Islamophobia: Actors, Tropes, Contexts /  |r Iselin Frydenlund --   |t Islamism and the Instrumentalisation of Conspiracism /  |r Willow J. Berridge --   |t Anti-Jewish and Anti-Zionist Conspiracism in the Arab World: Historical and Political Roots /  |r Barbara De Poli --   |t A Fantastic People and Its Enemies: An Analysis of an Emerging Albanian Mythology /  |r Cecilie Endresen --   |t Was Aristotle an Anti-Semitic Alien? Conspiracy Theory, Ufology, and the Colonisation of the Past in Contemporary Greece /  |r Tao T. Makeeff --   |t The Role of Conspiracy Theory in the Aum Shinrikyo Incident /  |r Tsuji Ryutaro --   |t Framing of a Conspiracy Theory: The Efendi Series /  |r Turkay Nefes --   |t The Third Rome Against the Third Temple: Apocalypticism and Conspiracism in Post-Soviet Russia /  |r Michael Hagemeister --   |t Alexander Dugin: Between Eschatology, Esotericism, and Conspiracy Theory /  |r Victor Shnirelman --   |t Conspiracy Theories and Neo-Nazism in the Cultic Milieu /  |r Paul Jackson --   |t Evil Cult or Persecuted Minority? Conspiracy Theories Surrounding Falun Gong and the Government of the People's Republic of China /  |r Helen Farley --   |t The Messiah is a Salesman, Yet Consumerism is a Con(spiracy): The Church of the SubGenius, Work, and the Pursuit of Slack as a Spiritual Ideal /  |r Carole M. Cusack --   |t Afterword: Further Reflections, Future Directions /  |r Egil Asprem , David G. Robertson and Asbjørn Dyrendal --   |t Back Matter --   |t Index. 
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