On February 15th a chapter I wrote for Discourses of Crisis and the Study of Religion will be published by Equinox. My chapter is on my experience teaching Evil, Death and Dying, Populism, and Conspiracy Theories during the Covid lockdowns. The students across the courses met together in - ThreadSky

philofwrite.bsky.social • 68 days ago

On February 15th a chapter I wrote for Discourses of Crisis and the Study of Religion will be published by Equinox. My chapter is on my experience teaching Evil, Death and Dying, Populism, and Conspiracy Theories during the Covid lockdowns. The students across the courses met together in

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chapman.wiki•66 days ago

Your research interests sound great! I led a small volunteer project a few years ago on Christian Belief in Conspiracy Theories, and there weren't a lot of directly relevant sources in many areas.

philofwrite.bsky.social•66 days ago

Thank you! What sources were you not finding? Conspiracy was dismissed for quite some time in scholarly worlds.

chapman.wiki•66 days ago

There was a lot of interest in conspiracy studies after Trump in 2016, which was good for conspiracy theory study and also politics, esp. populism. We didn't find a lot on Christian engagement and had to piece that together from approaches to (US) eschatology, sectarianism, and expertise denial.

chapman.wiki•66 days ago

I saw recently there's a new book out called 'Weaponizing Conspiracy Theories' that would have been readily helpful for the ways they intentionally drive conflict. We also found very little in the way of mature Christian reflection on causes or responses, especially in ethics or conflict resolution.

chapman.wiki•66 days ago

We were mainly focused on tensions and conflicts in church situations, which we'd all seen in the pandemic. This was our end product in 2022... https://iscast.org/conspiracy/

philofwrite.bsky.social•66 days ago

When I was researching my dissertation I encountered this as well. I remember telling my supervisor what I had found with the John Birch Society and he looked at me like I had two heads then cheered me on. I had an amazing supervisor and he remains my strongest supporter of my work

chapman.wiki•66 days ago

It's incredible what a long run US conspiracism has gotten out of just a few basic ideas, remixed every twenty years or so with the villains and schemes being swapped in and out.

radicallabgeek.bsky.social•65 days ago

Can I ask who was supervising or if anyone knows of ppl looking for PhD student..? 👀

Spouse is military, so we shuffle around a bit & it’s been hard to connect with someone in this area 😕

philofwrite.bsky.social•65 days ago

My supervisor was Dr. Scott Kline but he is not accepting students now. I know someone in Belgium is looking for post docs I'll look up their name maybe they are taking grad students too.

popandtheology.bsky.social•68 days ago

Is there a pre-order link?

philofwrite.bsky.social•68 days ago

https://api.equinoxpub.com/books/3181

popandtheology.bsky.social•68 days ago

Thank you!

philofwrite.bsky.social•68 days ago

My office hours and an incredible exchange was created. My online classrooms became a rich discourse as the topics became a reality we were all living. The students shared what they learned with family, coworkers, friends and I learned how to not only share my research but to do it

philofwrite.bsky.social•68 days ago

With empathy, with the consideration of various life experiences, and how what I research affects lives outside of social media and politics.

https://api.equinoxpub.com/books/3181

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