Culture of Conspiracy
Subtitle: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America
By: Michael Barkun
Edition: Second Edition
Series: Comparative studies in religion and society; 15
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Format: e-book
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780520956520
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Human-alien encounters; Conspiracies; Millennialism
First sentence: On January 20, 2002, Richard McCaslin, thirty-seven, of Carson City, Nevada, was arrested sneaking into the Bohemian Grove in northern California.
Notes: Manufactured in the United States of America
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Preface to the First Edition; label: 1
title: The Nature of Conspiracy Belief; label: 2
title: Millennialism, Conspiracy, and Stigmatized Knowledge; label: 3
title: New World Order Conspiracies I: The New World Order and the Illuminati; label: 4
title: New World Order Conspiracies II: A World of Black Helicopters; label: 5
title: UFO Conspiracy Theories, 1975–1990; label: 6
title: UFOs Meet the New World Order: Jim Keith and David Icke; label: 7
title: Armageddon Below; label: 8
title: UFOs and the Search for Scapegoats I: Anti-Catholicism and Anti-Masonry; label: 9
title: UFOs and the Search for Scapegoats II: Anti-Semitism among the Aliens; label: 10
title: September 11 Conspiracies: The First Phase; label: 11
title: September 11 Conspiracies: The Second Phase; label: 12
title: Conspiracy Theories about Barack Obama; label: 13
title: Conspiracists and Violence; label: 14
title: Apocalyptic Expectations about the Year 2012; label: 15
title: Conclusion; title: Notes; title: Bibliography; title: Index