Handbook of conspiracy theory and contemporary religion
Intro -- Handbook of Conspiracy Theory and Contemporary Religion -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- List of Authors -- Introducing the Field: Conspiracy Theory in, about, and as Religion -- Part 1: Explanations -- 1 Conspiracy Theories and the Study of Religion(s): What we are Talking about, an...
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Format: | Electronic Book |
Language: | English |
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Published: |
Boston
BRILL
2018
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In: | Year: 2018 |
Series/Journal: | Brill handbooks on contemporary religion
Volume 17 Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion Ser. |
Further subjects: | B
Conspiracy Theories
B Electronic books B Cults |
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Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: Dyrendal, Asbjø: Handbook of Conspiracy Theory and Contemporary Religion. - Boston : BRILL,c2018. - 9789004381506 |
Summary: | Intro -- Handbook of Conspiracy Theory and Contemporary Religion -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- List of Authors -- Introducing the Field: Conspiracy Theory in, about, and as Religion -- Part 1: Explanations -- 1 Conspiracy Theories and the Study of Religion(s): What we are Talking about, and Why it is Important -- 2 Rational Enchantments: Conspiracy Theory between Secular Scepticism and Spiritual Salvation -- 3 Is a Belief in Providence the Same as a Belief in Conspiracy? -- 4 Are Conspiracy Theories a Surrogate for God? -- 5 A Web of Conspiracy? Internet and Conspiracy Theory -- Part 2: Correspondences -- 6 The Satanism Scare in Apartheid South Africa -- 7 "Trust Me, You Can't Trust Them": Stigmatised Knowledge in Cults and Conspiracies -- 8 Popular Music, Conspiracy Culture, and the Sacred -- 9 Close Companions? Esotericism and Conspiracy Theories -- 10 The Counter-Elite: Strategies of Authority in Millennial Conspiracism -- Part 3: Locations -- 11 Buddhism Endangered by Hidden Enemies: Conspiracy Narratives in Sri Lankan Buddhist Present and Past -- 12 Buddhist Islamophobia: Actors, Tropes, Contexts -- 13 Islamism and the Instrumentalisation of Conspiracism -- 14 Anti-Jewish and Anti-Zionist Conspiracism in the Arab World: Historical and Political Roots -- 15 A Fantastic People and Its Enemies: An Analysis of an Emerging Albanian Mythology -- 16 Was Aristotle an Anti-Semitic Alien? Conspiracy Theory, Ufology, and the Colonisation of the Past in Contemporary Greece -- 17 The Role of Conspiracy Theory in the Aum Shinrikyo Incident -- 18 Framing of a Conspiracy Theory: The Efendi Series -- 19 The Third Rome Against the Third Temple: Apocalypticism and Conspiracism in Post-Soviet Russia -- 20 Alexander Dugin: Between Eschatology, Esotericism, and Conspiracy Theory -- 21 Conspiracy Theories and Neo-Nazism in the Cultic Milieu 22 Evil Cult or Persecuted Minority? Conspiracy Theories Surrounding Falun Gong and the Government of the People's Republic of China -- 23 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 -- Afterword: Further Reflections, Future Directions -- Index |
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ISBN: | 900438202X |