The Tartarian Empire: Conspirituality, Pop Culture, and the End of the Past
This article investigates the workings of a conspiritual community focused on the "Tartarian Empire," which members see as a lost, utopian realm erased from memory by a conspiracy. They claim that it was home to a highly spiritual, peaceful society based on the use of free energy. To study...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Nova religio
Year: 2025, Volume: 29, Issue: 1, Pages: 5-34 |
| Further subjects: | B
Occulture
B Esotericism B alternative archaeology B Social media B Conspirituality B mediality B Tartarian Empire |
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| Summary: | This article investigates the workings of a conspiritual community focused on the "Tartarian Empire," which members see as a lost, utopian realm erased from memory by a conspiracy. They claim that it was home to a highly spiritual, peaceful society based on the use of free energy. To study the dynamics of this community, we analyzed the content of a subreddit linked to it and employed an interdisciplinary theoretical framework to study key narratives and findings. Following the trail of the community's media usage, a deeper contextualization is proposed: the view of history found here can be analyzed as a symptom of a general crisis of social historical consciousness. Accordingly, this study is a step in reorienting the study of esotericism from elite discourse to popular movements, and bringing it into conversation with other fields in cultural studies. |
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| ISSN: | 1541-8480 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Nova religio
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/nvr.2025.a967004 |
