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 Co-Editor-In-Chief of the Religious Studies Project and a committee member of the British Association for the Study of Religion. He teaches at the University of Edinburgh and has published widely on new religions, millennialism, conspiracy theories and critical theory. He recently guest-edited a special issue of Nova Religio and is the co-editor of After World Religions: Reconstructing the Introductory Course in Religious Studies (2016).

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