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

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 ‘Ulam?’ 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