The Tartarian Empire: Conspirituality, Pop Culture, and the End of the Past

This article investigates the workings of a conspiritual community focused on the "Tartarian Empire," which members see as a lost, utopian realm erased from memory by a conspiracy. They claim that it was home to a highly spiritual, peaceful society based on the use of free energy. To study...

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Autori: Maurer, Moritz (Autore) ; Göckel, Thierry (Autore)
Tipo di documento: Elettronico Articolo
Lingua:Inglese
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Pubblicazione: 2025
In: Nova religio
Anno: 2025, Volume: 29, Fascicolo: 1, Pagine: 5-34
Altre parole chiave:B Occulture
B Esotericism
B alternative archaeology
B Social media
B Conspirituality
B mediality
B Tartarian Empire
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Riepilogo:This article investigates the workings of a conspiritual community focused on the "Tartarian Empire," which members see as a lost, utopian realm erased from memory by a conspiracy. They claim that it was home to a highly spiritual, peaceful society based on the use of free energy. To study the dynamics of this community, we analyzed the content of a subreddit linked to it and employed an interdisciplinary theoretical framework to study key narratives and findings. Following the trail of the community's media usage, a deeper contextualization is proposed: the view of history found here can be analyzed as a symptom of a general crisis of social historical consciousness. Accordingly, this study is a step in reorienting the study of esotericism from elite discourse to popular movements, and bringing it into conversation with other fields in cultural studies.
ISSN:1541-8480
Comprende:Enthalten in: Nova religio
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1353/nvr.2025.a967004