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What we find, therefore, is a strong tension between two opposed tendencies: on the one hand, a historically/chronologically oriented narrative of ancient wisdom which held considerable revolutionary potential, and, on the other, an essentially conservative…
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[Это копія поста изъ телеги.] The details are murky, but it seems clear that at the very least a Western intelligence element existed alongside the search for the Yeti. The mixture of cloak-and-dagger spy work…
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Later in the afternoon Jenny Randles speaks of “an interesting study in which individuals were asked to describe imaginary abductions.” She explains that if such a study indicated there were significant similarities between a “fantasized…
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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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…
There are thus two angles from which one may argue that it can be analytically helpful to look at conspiracy beliefs as a particular form of religion or ‘esotericism’: The social and the epistemic. They…
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Specifically, Whitson, Galinsky and Kay [Whitson, J.A., Galinsky, A.D. and Kay, A. (2015) ‘The emotional roots of conspiratorial perceptions, system justification, and belief in the paranormal’, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 56, 89-95] manipulated people’s…
Mass media have played, and continue to play, a large role in the ‘uncovering’ of evil forces. Not only newspapers, radio and television spread news of witchcraft, but in films produced for a mass audience…