Conspiracy Theorizing

Analysis and Scriptural Critique

Gerald Arbuckle

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781032750484
• eBook ISBN: 9781040029893
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christianity

Conspiracy Theorizing explore how should individuals with the Christian faith should react to conspiracy theories, their untruths, and their dangers. This book outlines the way that conspiracy theories are the fundamental basis for this stigmatization and scapegoating. It goes further to explain that scapegoating is fostering extreme divisions within in societies and between nations with each side often demonizing the other.

This book states how conspiracy theories satisfy people's needs for certainty, security, and a positive self-image in a world they feel is disintegrating. Uncovering deeper, when the comforting securities of cultures crumble, paranoia makes sense. This book demonstrates that an inability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity draws people to conspiracy theories when they validate their apprehensions. The commentary in this book also validates that since conspiracy theories can never be verified by objective research and truths they are one of the most problematic subjects to expose.

This book aims to answer these questions: What are conspiracy theories? Why do they arise, especially in times of cultural upheavals? Are they harmful? What do the Christian Scriptures say about them? Readers that are interested in religion, Christianity and conspiracy theories would enjoy this book.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Overview of the book
• Introduction
• 1 Gossip: The Breeding Ground of Conspiracy Theorizing
• 2 Conspiracy Theorizing Uncovered
• 3 Conspiracy Theorizing Drives Scapegoating, Populism and Polarization
• 4 Conspiracy Theorizing and Magical Thinking: Is There a Connection?
• Conclusion
• Index