{"id":819,"date":"2018-11-15T09:13:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T09:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/?p=819"},"modified":"2018-11-15T09:13:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T09:13:34","slug":"new-publication-brill-handbook-of-conspiracy-theory-and-contemporary-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/?p=819","title":{"rendered":"New Publication | Brill Handbook of Conspiracy Theory and Contemporary Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lecturer in Religious Studies, David G. Robertson, is one of the editors of the just-published <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brill.com\/view\/title\/39101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/brill.com');\">Handbook of Conspiracy Theory and Contemporary Religion<\/a>, along\u00a0<\/em>with Asbj\u00f8rn Dyrendal (NTNU, Norway) and Egil Asprem (Stockholm University).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Conspiracy theories are a ubiquitous feature of our times. The\u00a0<i>Handbook of Conspiracy Theories and Contemporary Religion<\/i>\u00a0is the first reference work to offer a comprehensive, transnational overview of this phenomenon along with in-depth discussions of how conspiracy theories relate to religion(s). Bringing together experts from a wide range of disciplines, from psychology and philosophy to political science and the history of religions, the book sets the standard for the interdisciplinary study of religion and conspiracy theories.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As well as David&#8217;s contributions, the book also includes a chapter co-written by Lecturer Suzanne Newcombe, entitled\u00a0&#8220;Trust Me, You Can&#8217;t Trust Them&#8221;: Stigmatised Knowledge in Cults and Conspiracies.&#8221; Other chapters include methodological overviews from sociology, psychology and philosophy; regional case studies on Sri Lanka, Albania, Greece, Japan and elsewhere; thematic chapters on popular music, Esotericism, Church of the SubGenius, neo-Nazism, the Internet; and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecturer in Religious Studies, David G. Robertson, is one of the editors of the just-published Handbook of Conspiracy Theory and Contemporary Religion, along\u00a0with Asbj\u00f8rn Dyrendal (NTNU, Norway) and Egil Asprem (Stockholm University). Conspiracy theories are a ubiquitous feature of our times. The\u00a0Handbook of Conspiracy Theories and Contemporary Religion\u00a0is the first reference work to offer a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,1],"tags":[162,273,272,86],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","category-uncategorized","tag-conspiracy-theories","tag-david","tag-publications","tag-suzanne-newcombe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":822,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}