Religion and Conspiracy Theories

This book is the first accessible volume to systematically examine the relationship between religion and conspiracy theories in the contemporary world in critical and historical perspective.

David G. Robertson is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the Open University. His work focuses on the social construction of knowledge in religions, conspiracy theories and beyond. He is the author of UFOs, the New Age and Conspiracy Theories (2016) and Gnosticism and the History of Religions (2021), and co-editor of the Handbook of Conspiracy Theories and Contemporary Religion (2018).

Foreword 1. Everything You Know is Wrong 2. A Secret History 3. Conspiracy/Theory 4. The Economy of Stigmatized Ideas 5. Conspiracy Theories as Religion 6. Conspiracy Theories in Religion 7. Conspiracy Theories about Religion 8. Post-Truth? Bibliography Index