Selling (Con)spirituality and COVID-19 in Australia: Convictions, Complexity and Countering Dis/misinformation

Conspirituality—the merger of conspiracy theories and spirituality—has attracted significant global media and scholarly attention during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article expands upon the ‘two core’ conspiritual convictions proposed by Ward and Voas that ‘1) a secret group covertly controls, or is...

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Authors: Halafoff, Anna (Author) ; Marriott, Emily (Author) ; Fitzpatrick, Ruth (Author) ; Weng, Enqi (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publ. 2022
In: Journal for the academic study of religion
Year: 2022, Volume: 35, Issue: 2, Pages: 141-167
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Australia / Conspiracy theory / Spirituality / Conviction / COVID-19 (Disease) / Pandemic / History 2020-2022
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AE Psychology of religion
AZ New religious movements
KBS Australia; Oceania
TK Recent history
Further subjects:B Covid
B Spirituality
B Disinformation
B misinformation
B Conspirituality
B Pandemic
B Australia
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