Apocalyptic Conspiracism

"A new study of American evangelicalism that shows how the logic of Apocalypticism and counter-cultural arguments feed into climate denial and anti-Covid viewpoints. It considers how apocalyptic and conspiracist truth claims thrive across transnational networks of digital spaces and Improves the understanding of religious, apocalyptic, and conspiracist belief systems which affect geopolitical imaginations, the perception of global crises, as well as the environmentally relevant behaviour of millions of American evangelical Christians"--

Tom Albrecht is Visiting Scholar in Geography at Queen's University Belfast. His research concerns contemporary apocalyptic conspiracist discourses in digital spaces. Tristan Sturm is Senior Lecturer in Geography at Queen's University Belfast. He is the Director of the MA in Geopolitics and a Fellow of the Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice and was recently granted a Fellowship at the Centre for Apocalyptic and Postapocalyptic Studies at the University of Heidelberg. He is interested in apocalyptic thought related to climate change, conspiracies, and religious movements in the USA and Israel/Palestine. He has published over 30 academic articles, in co-editor of Mapping the End Times, and has disseminated his findings in the Toronto Star, Haaretz, Jerusalem Post, National Post, THE Magazine, BBC Radio 4, ITV, BBC Newsline (TV), among other media spaces.

1. Introduction: Apocalyptic Conspiracism as a Way of Comprehending Crises Part I: Knowledge Geographies of Apocalyptic Conspiracism 2. Social Epistemology, Power, and Climatic Counter-Knowledge 3: Analysing Digital Knowledge Discourses/Spaces Part II: American Evangelical Apocalyptic Conspiracism on Climate Change 4: American Evangelicalism, the Environment, and Apocalyptic Conspiracism 5: The Construction of Evangelical Apocalyptic Conspiracist Climate Change Discourses 6: Generation of Evangelical Apocalyptic Climate Counter-Knowledge Part III: Apocalyptic Conspiracist Geopolitics and its Flexibility 7: Climate Change and Evangelical Apocalyptic Geopolitics 8: Evangelical and Secular Conspiracist Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic 9. Conclusion: Apocalyptic Friends and the Truth of the End Bibliography Index