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By the late eighteenth century, however, a second form of millennialism was developing, unconnected to religious concepts. This consisted of secular visions of a perfect future — ideas propelled by faith in transcendent but not…
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He [conspiracy theorist Stan Deyo, author of The Cosmic Conspiracy (1978), “fus[ing] Illuminati theory with dispensational premillennialism and a variety of UFO speculation generally referred to as Alternative 3”, ibid., p. 57] enters new territory,…
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By stigmatized knowledge I mean claims to truth that the claimants regard as verified despite the marginalization of those claims by the institutions that conventionally distinguish between knowledge and error — universities, communities of scientific…
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Paradoxically, although science has contributed to the decline of religious authority, science too has seen its standing decline, especially in the last three decades of the twentieth century. The fruits of scientific research — whether…
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Although all conspiracy theories share the generic characteristics described earlier in this chapter, they may be distinguished, principally by their scope. They range from those directed at explaining some single, limited occurrence to those so…
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Belief in conspiracies is central to millennialism in the late twentieth and early twenty – first centuries. That is scarcely unexpected — millennialist worldviews have always predisposed their adherents to conspiracy beliefs. Such worldviews may…
The convergence of conspiracy theories with UFO beliefs is worth examining for two reasons. First, it has brought conspiracism to a large new audience. UFO writers have long been suspicious of the U.S. government, which…
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Вообще, нужен опыт овладения национальной идеей. Она очень сильна и на неподготовленные натуры может воздействовать разрушительно (злоба и т.д.). Эта идея иррациональна и может подчинить себе разум, разрушить его до основания и включить в свою…
Conspiracy theories in a narrower definition are an early modern ‘invention’ or a phenomenon only emerging after the Renaissance, during the confessional age. Two major types of conspiracy theories were evolving at this time: Those…
However, anti-imperialism also assumed a special form and prominent place in the Non-Aligned Movement. This still active global association of countries was established in 1961 as an alternative to the Cold War blocs of the…