Apocalyptic Conspiracism
American Evangelicalism in an Age of Climate Crisis
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- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
8 January 2025
Summary
In the USA, politically conservative and right-wing apocalyptic evangelicals hold that climate change science and Covid-19 are fabrications governed by manifest evil. How do these groups generate and distribute these truth-claims and why?
Using a sociological methodology informed by Bourdieu and Foucault, this book offers tools for scholars and students to better understand the logic of climate denial within the context of American conservative evangelicalism and apoc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350442931 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1350442933 |
| Author: | Tom Albrecht, Tristan Sturm |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 8 January 2025 |
| Weight: | 332g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 235mm x 156mm |
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This is a very intriguing read, filled with carefully curated primary texts from American evangelical apocalyptic and right-wing conspiracist blogs, YouTube channels, podcasts, and other online spaces. * Religious Studies Review *Apocalyptic Conspiracism gives to its readers a much-needed antidote to counter the counter-knowledges and provides the support and confidence needed to critically assess apocalyptic conspiracist discourses whenever and wherever they are encountered. * Nova Religio *
About The Author
Tom Albrecht
Tom Albrecht is Visiting Scholar in Geography at Queen’s University Belfast. His research concerns contemporary apocalyptic conspiracist discourses in digital spaces.
Tristan Sturm is Senior Lecturer in Geography at Queen’s University Belfast. He is the Director of the MA in Geopolitics and a Fellow of the Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice and was recently granted a Fellowship at the Centre for Apocalyptic and Postapocalyptic Studies at the University of Heidelberg. He is interested in apocalyptic thought related to climate change, conspiracies, and religious movements in the USA and Israel/Palestine. He has published over 30 academic articles, is co-editor of Mapping the End Times, and has disseminated his findings in the Toronto Star, Haaretz, Jerusalem Post, National Post, THE Magazine, BBC Radio 4, ITV, BBC Newsline (TV), among other media spaces.
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