Turn On The News: The Times Has to Make a Choice: It Can’t Laugh at Satanic Claims and Take the Christian Right at Face Value
Allow me to play devil’s advocate for a moment, so to speak. Have you ever…
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Vainglory Days: A Foremost Expert on Religious Violence Offers Clues to How QAnon Might End
QAnon won’t last forever. Sooner or later, even if the failure of their prophecies doesn’t…
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A New Mormon Religion Has Taken QAnon Conspiracies and Canonized Them as Doctrine
Over the last year, I’ve scrolled past social media posts by members of diverse religious…
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‘Cult’ Is an Inaccurate, Unhelpful and Dangerous Label for Followers of Trump, QAnon, and 1/6
In the twentieth century the word “cult” (originally meaning “worship”) became a pejorative word that…
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What Connects Racism, Misogyny and Faith? Community. And That’s a Bad Thing
Since the murder of eight people at Atlanta-area spas on March 16, there’s been a…
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How Postwar Germany’s Witchcraft Trials Can Help Us Understand QAnon And Other Conspiracy Theories
Doing research in a branch of the state library in Berlin a few years ago,…
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Blinken and ‘Blinkered’: Two Oath-of-Office Stories Embody a Divided America
America continues to divide and migrate toward opposing poles, one in which democratic government is…
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Q Shaman’s New Age-Radical Right Blend Hints at the Blurring of Seemingly Disparate Categories
By now we’ve all seen the pictures, saturating our social media landscapes with their grotesque…
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As We Survey the Damage of Yesterday’s Violence, What Will Christian Nationalist Politics Look Like in 2021? New Report Offers Clues
This week, amid Democratic victories in Georgia’s Senate runoffs and a Christian nationalist attempt to…
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How ‘Positivity’ Can Lead to Conspiratorial Thinking
Positivity and positive thinking are very often held as inherently good qualities to embody. If you…
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