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A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America
by Michael Barkun
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ISBN: 0520238052 Publisher: University of California Press Subject: Conspiracies Subject: Human-alien encounters Subject: Anthropology - Cultural Subject: General Subject: Sociology - General Subject: Conspiracy & Scandal Investigations Series: Comparative Studies in Religion and Society Series Volume: 15 Publication Date: November 2003 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Pages: 255 Dimensions: 924x632x89 103
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What do UFO believers, Christian millennialists, and rightwing conspiracy theorists have in common? According to Michael Barkun in this fascinating yet disturbing book, quite a lot. It is well known that some Americans are obsessed with conspiracies. The Kennedy assassination, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the 2001 terrorist attacks have all generated elaborate stories of hidden plots. What is far less known is the extent to which conspiracist worldviews have recently become linked in strange and unpredictable ways with other "fringe" notions such as a belief in UFOs, Nostradamus, and the Illuminati. Unraveling the extraordinary genealogies and permutations of these increasingly widespread ideas, Barkun shows how this web of urban legends has spread among subcultures on the Internet and through mass media, how a new style of conspiracy thinking has recently arisen, and how this phenomenon relates to larger changes in American culture. This book, written by a leading expert on the subject, is the most comprehensive and authoritative examination of contemporary American conspiracism to date. Barkun discusses a range of material--involving innerearth caves, government black helicopters, alien abductions, secret New World Order cabals, and much more--that few realize exists in our culture. Looking closely at the manifestions of these ideas in a wide range of literature and source material from religious and political literature, to New Age and UFO publications, to popular culture phemonemon such as The X-Files, and to websites, radio programs, and more, Barkun finds that America is in the throes of an unrivaled period of millennarian activity. His book underscores the importance ofunderstanding why this phenomenon is now spreading into more mainstream segments of American culture. Comparative Studies in Religion and Society, 15
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