Event Host: Center for the Study of Religion
Short Description: Join David G. Robertson, lecturer in religious studies at the Open University, in a discussion on how the study of religion can help us to understand conspiracy theories like QAnon.
Join David G. Robertson, lecturer in religious studies at the Open University, in a discussion on how the study of religion can help us to understand conspiracy theories like QAnon. From fears of Satanic paedophile cabals in Washington to 5G affecting our chakras, there are plenty of examples of conspiracy theories. Are there underlying structural reasons that religion and conspiracy theories are such frequent bedfellows? Robertson will introduce the idea of epistemic capital as a way to understand how different ideas and entrepreneurs become popular in the marketplace of stigmatised knowledge.
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