Apocalyptic Conspiracism : American Evangelicalism in an Age of Climate Crisis / Tom Albrecht and Tristan Sturm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Albrecht, Tom, author.

Sturm, Tristan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes--United States.

Climatic changes.

Conservatism--United States.

Conservatism.

Conspiracies.

Evangelicalism--United States.

Evangelicalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

In the USA, politically conservative and right-wing apocalyptic evangelicals hold that climate change science and Covid-19 are fabrications governed by manifest evil. How do these groups generate and distribute these truth-claims and why? Using a sociological methodology informed by Bourdieu and Foucault, this book offers tools for scholars and students to better understand the logic of climate denial within the context of American conservative evangelicalism and apocalypticism. Tom Albrecht and Tristan Sturm coin and employ the term apocalyptic conspiracism to analyse the increasingly powerful confluence of apocalyptic and conspiracist discourses. These dialogues create a holistic belief system, which claims that the world will profoundly change for the worse due to a global network of interconnected conspiracies. This book focuses on and expands the literature on the discursive practices of anthropogenic climate change and Covid-19 denialism. Exploring religious, apocalyptic, and conspiracist belief systems, the authors demonstrate how these affect geopolitical imaginations, the perception of global crises, as well as the environmentally relevant behaviour of American Evangelical Christians.

Contents:

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

ISBN:

9781350442979

1350442976

OCLC:

1460466858