Index
The index was compiled by David Claszen.
14 Words, The 479
27 Club 196 –198
610 Office 499
666 394 –395 433 –434
786 (Islam) 282
,
293
9/11 conspiracies 117
,
157
,
215 –216 243
,
327
969 Movement 281 –283 288 –290 293 –294 297 –300
Abbey Road 198
Abd al-Nasir, Jamal 308
Abduh, Muhammad 310
,
314
Abdulhamid II 409
abortion 157n3
abuse. child abuse, sexual
accident, nothing happens by 61 –62 152
,
183
,
188
,
202
,
464
,
516
Adams, Mike 189
ad hominem attacks 171
Adorno, Theodor 56
Aetherius Society 365
,
518
al-Afghani, Jamal al-Din 308 –310 314
,
317
African-Americans 157
,
187
Afrikaner 134 –136 142
Agartha, city of 214
agency 40 –42
attributing 29 –30 56
,
76
,
87 –93 223
,
395
,
402
loss of 33
,
54
,
350
over-attributing 30
,
223
agency panic 55
,
407
agenticity 90 –93
agnotology 155 –156
AIDS 157
,
219
,
327
,
393
,
401
Ainu 374 –375 398
AKP (Justice and Progress Party) 416 –417
al-Baghdādī, Abū Bakr 333
Albania, Albanians 343 –346
history 346
language 343
,
345
oppression 351 –352
religions 345 –346 354 –355
Albanian conspiracism. Pelasgianism
Alexander, Jeffrey 181
Alexander incident 365
Alexander the Great 365
,
368
,
374
alienation
from nature 60
from politics 30
,
95
,
259
from the world 55 –56 158
,
225
,
515 –516 518
aliens. extraterrestrials
Allen, Richie 248
al-Qaeda 291
,
306
,
332 –333
alter egos 190 –192
alternative linguistics 349
alternative medicine 51
,
164
,
219 –220
Aluthgama riots 279
,
284
Alveydre, Saint-Yves de 214
American Nazi Party (ANP) 472 –473 477
American Way of Life 264
,
275
analytic thinking 93
,
215
,
223 –224 485
Ancient Astronaut Theory 13
,
97
,
365
Anderson, Benedict 383 –384
angels 77
‘anomia’ (anomie) 158
anonymity in herd behaviour 123
Anonymous 164
anthroposophy 59
,
214
Antichrist, seal of the 433 –434 438
Antichrist, the 444 –445 455 –456
America as the empire of 436 –437 454
in Christianity 96
,
190
in Dugin’s work 444 –445 449
,
454
Jews assisting or embodying 323
,
425 –429 431
,
433 –434 444 –445 454
,
456
in millennialism 157 –158
in Russian eschatology 424 –438 444 –445
world domination 96
,
426 –428
Anti-Communist Youth University 186
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) 361
anti-establishment 52 –53 56 –57 152 –153 159
,
161
anti-Judaism 322
,
335
,
425
,
427
,
429
anti-Masonic conspiracism 6
,
211
,
216
,
324 –326
anti-Muslim conspiracism 8
,
286
,
290 –291 273
,
282
,
292 –294
deracination 285 –286 289
,
292
expansionism 258
,
270 –274 288 –289 291 –292
global domination 271 –272 280
,
288 –289 292
national security 291 –292
rape 284
,
295 –296
sterilisation 273
,
294 –295 halal certification; Islamisation
anti-Muslim movements. Buddhist groups, anti-Islamic
anti-Muslim violence 12
,
157
,
258
,
271
,
279
,
287
,
293 –295
anti-Romeic Hellenocentrics 369
anti-Semitic conspiracism 312 –313 327 –329 332 –336
Communist Jews 470
crypto-Jews 333
Greater Israel 329
,
333
ISIS 333 –336
in Nazism 462
,
464
,
467 –468
in neo-Nazism 465
,
469 –471 473 –480 482 –485
Ottoman Empire coup 409 Dönmes, conspiracy theories about; Holocaust denial; under Islamist conspiracies; under Japanese conspiracy culture; Judeo-Masonic, global plot; Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The
anti-Semitism 8
,
321
,
324 –325
Arabian/Islamist 305
,
322 –325 330
in Buddhism 287
,
292
in epsilonism 368 –369 372 –373 376 –381
in Greece 361 –362 368
,
379 –380
in Nazism 462
,
464
,
467 –468
in neo-Nazism 465
,
469 –471 473 –480 482 –485
in Russia 431 –433 anti-Judaism
anti-Zionist conspiracism 321 –322 324
,
326 –328 331
,
335 –336
apartheid 133 –136 143 –144
apocalypse (revelation) 36 –37 40
apocalypticism (end of the world) 97
,
238
,
373
,
444
,
455 –456
in Aum Shinrikyo 389
,
395 –396 403
in Christianity 96
,
423
,
527 –528
in COSG 515
,
522
in Dugin’s work 436 –437 444
,
448 –450 454
in Falun Gong 496 –497 501
in Russia 424 –426 428 –438 eschatology
apostasy 217 –218 427
,
435
,
449
Arakan Human Rights and Development Organization (AHRDO) 290 –291 295
Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) 279
Aranza, Jacob 189
Arendt, Hannah 379
Arınç, Bülent 416 –417
Aristotle 368
,
371
,
380
,
383 –384
Armageddon 395 –397 403
Arvanites 345
,
351 –353
Aryan Nations 478
,
483
Aryans 449 –454 467
,
474
,
477
,
479
,
485
Asahara Shoko 390 –391 395 –398 401 –402
Assange, Julian 517
astrology 140
Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal 411
,
417
Atlantis 354
,
376 –377 515
,
524
Aum Shinrikyo conspiracism 13
,
389 –394 403 –404
apocalypticism 389
,
395 –396 403
Buddhism 394
,
396
dualistic worldview 390 –391
global scale 392 –393 395 –397
legitimating itself 401 –403
manipulating economies 393
,
396
manipulating history 392 –393
materialism 390 –391 394
,
402 –404
mind control 391 –392 395
privatisation 392
United States as an enemy 392 –393 397
,
399
authoritarian regimes and conspiracism 288
,
298 –299 530
,
533
authority 366
,
530
distrust of 22
,
51 –53 154
,
161
legitimisation of 213
of myth 35 –36
of sources 110 –111 116
,
118
,
166
,
171
authority, charismatic 12
,
213
,
235
,
242 –244 246
,
250 –252 246 –247 Icke, David; Jones, Alex
and financial interests 249 –250
authority, epistemic 51
,
64
,
156
,
160
,
166
authority, non-formative 235
,
240
awakening. see global awakening; Sahwa movement
azan (call to prayer) 416
backmasking 136
,
180
,
189
,
198 –199
Baffelli, Erica 246
Bailey, Alice 214
Balfour Declaration 328
Balkans 345 –346
Ball, Edward 517
Bandaranaike, S.W.R.D. 262
Banū Qurayza 322
Baphomet 200
barcodes 96
,
158
,
434
Barkun, Michael 50 –51 152
,
155
,
183
,
215
,
368
,
400
,
464
,
516
Barrett, Kevin 248
Barruel, Augustin 213
,
323 –324
Basham, Lee 75 –76
al-Bashir, Umar 310 –312 314
Baudelaire, Charles 80 –81
Bayart, Jean-François 304
BBS (Bodu Bala Sena) 258
,
271 –274 276
,
281
,
283 –284 288
,
290 –294 298
,
300
Beatles, The 188
,
199 –200 394
Bebergal, Peter 199 –201
belief
in conspiracies 152 –153 223 –225 465
,
485
conspiracy as viable 73 –74
desire for 58 –59
(dis)similarities conspiracy/religion 49 –51 88
,
98 –100 224
in miracles 72
stability of 98
,
114 –116 scepticism
benevolent guardianship 135 –136 142
,
144
Berdyaev, Nikolai 424
Berg, Alan 478
Berger, Peter 55
Bernal, Martin 374 –375
Besant, Anne 214
Beta programming 192
Bey, Hakim 521
Beyoncé 180
,
200
big pharma 53
,
112
,
158
,
219 –220
Bilderberg Fringe Festival 162 –166
Bilderberg meeting 162
,
164
,
247
Billboard Liberation Front (BLF) 517
Billion Dollar Babies 206
bin Laden, Osama 116
,
157
,
243
,
332 –333
bin Malik, Ahmad 313 –314
birth certificate, Obama’s 121 –122
birth control 273
,
283 –284
Birthers 121 –123
Bivins, Jason 185
Black Death 393
,
402
Blanchard, John 188
,
190
Bloemfontein 138
,
146
blood 146
drinking of 149
graffiti 199
ritual drawing of 141
signing in 480
unleavened bread 305
Blood & Honour 482
Blood Libel case 379
BNP (British National Party) 6
,
470 –471 481
,
483
“Bob” Dobbs, J.R. 514 –520 522 –524
Bodu Bala Sena. see BBS (Bodu Bala Sena)
body and conspiracism 531
Boethius 75
,
85
Boko Haram 312
book dealers 160
Boston Globe, The 113
boundaries, thin 224 –227
boundary maintenance 153 –154
boundary work 51 –52 57 –58 64
brainwashing 57
,
188 mind control
Branch Davidians 6
,
152
,
154
,
397
Bratich, Jack 28
Brewer-Giorgio, Gail 196
Brexit 248 –249
bricolage 59 –60 64
,
445
,
465
British National Party (BNP) 6
,
470 –471 481
,
483
British Union of Fascists 469 –470
Bromberg, Yaakov 450
Brown Sahibs 265 –266 269 –270
Buddhism
285
in Aum Shinrikyo 394
,
396
dharma 95
,
171
,
285 –286 394n4
in Falun Gong 495 –496
sasana 269
,
285 –286 289
Theravada 282
,
286
,
289 karma; Mappo; Māra; narrative, of Buddhism as imperilled; Sangha; Shugden
Buddhism (geographic)
Myanmar 282 –283
Sri Lanka 257 –258 261 –270 275
,
281
,
283 –284
Tibet 168 Rakhine
Buddhism, political 281
Buddhist Commission 262 –268
Buddhist groups, anti-Islamic 280 –281 BBS (Bodu Bala Sena); MaBaTha; 969 Movement
Buddhist historiography 266
,
268
,
275 –276 286 –288
as context 259
,
267 –268
decline, disappearance 285 –287
extinction elsewhere 272
,
286 –287
foreign enemies 261 –262 268
,
270 –271 foreign forces endangering Buddhism
Buddhist Islamophobia. see Islamophobia, Buddhist
Buddhist nationalism 281
,
283
,
292
,
295 –296 298
Buddhist protectionist ideology 280 –281 283
,
290
,
297 –300
building-block approach 23 –24 42
,
223
,
236
Bulldada 520
Butler, Richard 478
Butter, Michael 29
Byrd, Robert C. 191 –192
Calvinism 142
Campbell, Colin 153
,
161
,
208 –209 218
,
366
,
463 –464 485
,
516
capitalism 56 –57 164 –165 414 –415 419
,
437
,
474
,
476
,
513
,
517
,
520 –521 523 –524
Capital Levy 408
Carosso, Emmanuel 409
Carto, Willis 475
Catapano, Guiseppe 353 –354
Catholic Church 6
,
528
anti-Masonic/Semitic conspiracy 16
in Dugin’s work 452
formative authority 240
in Sri Lankan conspiracism 263 –270
Cavid Bey, Mehmed 408 –409
celebrities 193 –196 musicians
Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) 167
,
170
Cham Albanians 352
charisma. see authority, charismatic; Icke, David; Jones, Alex
Charlie Hebdo shooting 313
Charter of Medina 322
Chen Guo 501
Chernobyl 435
Chesteron, A.K. 476
,
480
Chidester, David 514
child abuse, sexual 108
,
137 –138 162
,
190 –191
Children’s Record Guild 186
China
Great Leap Forward 493
medicine in 492 –493
relations with Sri Lanka 270
relations with Tibet 167 –168 170 –171
China Central Television 502
China Qigong Scientific Research Society 494
Chinese Communist Party 170
,
495
,
499
,
506
Chinese folk religion in Falun Gong 495 –496
Christian Crusade 186
Christian Death 182
Christian Identity 6
,
477 –479 486
Christianity 59
,
75
,
158
,
423
in Islamic conspiracism 305
,
309
,
325
Jews plotting against 323
,
325
,
432
,
444 –445 449 –450
just-world beliefs 95
in neo-Nazism 472
sacred/profane dualism 182 –183
Satanism 96 –97 134
,
138 –143
in Sri Lankan conspiracism 261 –266 270 Calvinism; Catholic Church; esotericism; Evangelicalism; Orthodox Christianity; Protestantism
Chuck D 159
Church of the SubGenius (COSG) 514 –524 515 –517 520 –524
apocalypticism 515
,
522
Conspiracy, the 515
,
519 –524
cultic milieu 516
humour 520 –524
iconography 517
individualism 519
salvation 519
Temporary Autonomous Zones 521 –522
CIA 157
,
190
,
249
,
312
,
314
,
333
,
397
Clarke, David 249
climate change 92
,
95
,
157
,
251
Coale, Samuel Chase 33
,
37
Cobain, Kurt 180
,
195
Codreanu, Michael Corneliu 481
,
486
cognition, seizing the means of 38
,
221
,
252
cognitive dissonance 5
,
38
,
220
,
222n12
,
243
,
276
cognitive science of religion 37 –38 97 –99
coincidences 62
,
93
COINTELPRO 249
Cold War 96
,
112
,
134
,
147
,
393
collective thinking 30 –31 154
colonialism
India 286 –287
Islamic World 305 –310 315 –317 328
Myanmar 287
South Africa 135
,
142 –143
Sri Lanka 257 –258 261 –263 266 –267 270 –271 275
,
281
,
287
Columbine High School massacre 184
Column 88 481
Combat 18 484
commercialised conspiracy 39
,
218 –219
Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion 138
communication technology. see Internet; spread of conspiracies
communism 112
,
505
and epsilonism 370 –371 381
and Islamism 312
and Pelasgianism 344
,
346
,
353
and popular music 180
,
185 –188
and Satanism 134
,
147 –148
communism, global 96 –97
Communist Party of China 170
communities 100
African-American 157
,
159 –160
Greek 383 –384
Puritan 154
Tibetan Buddhist 168 –171 Dönme community; ummah
community, as a source of beliefs 168 –173
compensatory control 88
,
90 –93
complex cultural concepts 23 –24
confirmation bias 51
,
116
,
220n10
,
251
Confucius Institute 491
,
504
conservatism
and music 184 –185 189 –190
and religion 92
,
182
South African 135
,
140
conspiracy, to conspire (definition) 76
,
259
,
515 –516
conspiracy as religion
(dis)similarities 50
,
71
,
73
,
75 –85 88
,
183
,
464 –465
as equally irrational 50 –51 64
,
71
as field of study 4 –5 36
,
40
as replacement 9
,
88
thematic similarities 96 –97 belief; esotericism
conspiracy mentality 30
,
208
,
225
conspiracy motifs 34
,
36
,
38
conspiracy panic 28 –29
conspiracy stereotypes 30
conspiracy talk 31 –33
conspiracy theorists. see Icke, David; Jones, Alex; self-understanding
conspiracy theory (concept)
building blocks 25 –27 29
,
31
,
35 –42 223
conceptualisation 3
,
21 –23 25 –43 76 –77 153 –154 259 –261 407
as ethno-sociologies 145
in religion 5 –6 36
about religion 7 –8
conspiratocracy 107
,
112
conspirituality 59 –60 207
,
343
consumerism 513
,
515
,
517
,
520 –524 materialism
control
in capitalism 57
feeling of lacking 90 –91
lacking 30
,
50
,
92
,
145
locus of 91
resistance to 52 compensatory control
Cooper, Alice 182
Cooper, Anderson 118
Cosmotheism 475 –477
COUM Transmissions 184
counter-elite 221
,
235
,
252
counterintuitivity. see minimal counterintuitiveness
counterknowledge 38
,
158 –159 219
,
221
,
223
,
228
counter-narrative 25
,
28
counter-schematic concepts 37
,
98 –99
country music 190 –191
Courtney, David 480
cow protection 292
Cox, Wayne 191 –192
crises, conspiracy in response to 37
,
88
,
257
,
326
,
378
,
417
,
438
crisis actors 73
,
118
critical theory 56 –57
critical thinking 52 –54 56
Cross, Charles 197
crusaders 305 –306
CTA (Central Tibetan Administration) 167
,
170
cult, as a label 152
cult cops 136n2
,
140
cultic milieu 59
,
153
,
157 –158 207 –209 218 –219 227 –228 366
,
368
,
516
authority 234 –235 238
Bilderberg Fringe Festival 161
,
165
Church of the SubGenius 516
cognitive characteristics 223 –227
fascist cultures 463 –465 469 –474 478
,
480 –482 484 –486
in Greece 366 –367 369
,
375
group dynamics 212 –213 217
,
220 –222
hip-hop culture 161
identity formation 211 –212 222
material side 39
,
218 –219
motivated reasoning 220 –221 226 –227
seeking change 239 under deviance
cults
the rise of 209
Satanism 146 –147
Shugden, as a 166
cultural sociology 181
culture industry 56
culture jamming 516 –517 520 –521 523 –523
CUP (Committee of Union and Progress) 408 –409 413 –414 417
,
419
Cyrus, Miley 192 –193
Daesh. see ISIS
Dalai Lama (the 14th, Tenzin Gyatso) 166 –172
Däniken, Erich von 97
,
351
,
365
Danos, Antonis 382
Davidoff, Solomon 516
Da Vinci Code, The 59
,
115 –116
Debord, Guy 516 –517 519 –520
deep state 248
,
413
Deguchi Onisaburo 398
Deguchi Yasuaki 398
Deliyannis, Yannis 365
Democrats 115
,
157
demographic jihad. see under Islamisation
Deng Xiaoping 506
Dentith, Matthew R.X. 74
Dery, Mark 516 –517
determinism 423
detriments of conspiracy beliefs 112
Devi, Savitri 474
deviance 223
,
228
in the cultic milieu 208 –209 212
,
218
,
223
,
227
in esotericism 208
,
210
deviant behaviour 139
,
141
,
146
,
154
,
185
Devil, the 183
in epsilonism 376
existence of 80 –81
Jews as descendants from 478
,
481
and popular music 188 –189
in South African Satanism 138 –141 145 –146
Devji, Faisal 312
dharma 95
,
171
,
285 –286 394n4
dharma-ending period 497
Dharmapāla, Anagārika 261
,
286 –287
dhimmīs 323
,
330
Diana, Princess of Wales 194
,
329
,
394
DiFonzo, Nicholas 33 –34
disbelieving conspiracies. see scepticism
Discordianism 520 –521 523
discourse interlaces 260
disenchantment of the world 58 –60 63
,
65
,
424
dismissal of conspiracies 48
,
70
,
152
,
251
distrust. see scepticism
Diwald, Helmut 476
Dobbs, J.R. “Bob” 514 –520 522 –524
Dolgyal 167
Donaldson, Ian Stuart 482
Dönme community 407 –409
Dönmes, conspiracy theories about 409 –410 413 –419
American involvement 414 –415
capitalism 414 –415
deep state 413
Jewish involvement 414 –417
misrepresenting history 416
Ottoman Empire coup 409
Doom (video game) 184
doppelgangers 198 –199
Drummond, Philo 514
,
517
,
523
dualism
in Aum Shinrikyo 390 –391
in Christianity 423
in epsilonism 380 –381
in Falun Gong 496
in Manichaeism 304
,
306 –307 316
in Russian metaphysics 429
sacred/profane 182 –183 188
soft 194
dualism, Cartesian 62
Dugin, Alexander 436 –437 443 –456
America 436 –437 446
,
449
,
453 –454
Antichrist 444 –445 449
,
454
anti-Semitism, Jews 447
,
449 –452 454 –456
apocalypticism 436 –437 444
,
448 –450 454
Aryans 449 –454
creating fear 445
,
454
creationism 450 –452 454
esotericism 447n9
,
454 –455
katechon 448
,
454
Nazism 450
,
453
New World Order 443
,
450
,
452
world plot 436
,
443
,
445
,
449 –450
Durkheim, Émile 24
,
181
Dury, Ian 182
Dutch Reformed Church. see NGK (Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk)
earthquakes 89
,
91
,
368
Easternisation 185
Ebola 393
EBP (Eksat Bhikkhu Peramuṇa) 267
,
269
echo chamber 111
Eelam 274
,
292
Efendi series 407
,
409 –419
anti-Semitism 418
Islamists on 417 –419
religions mentioned 415 –416
right/left-wing 415
,
417
,
419 Dönmes, conspiracy theories about
Eide, Rita 194
elites, media 115
,
118 –119
ELLIN.A.I.S 366
Elvis Presley 195 –196 198
Eminem 192
,
198
end of the world. see apocalypticism (end of the world)
endogenous conspiracy 180
,
193 –202
end time 96
,
158
,
173
Enlightenment 8
,
40
,
65
,
209 –211 429
entertainment
conspiracy as 32
end time theories as 173
seduction of 56
,
185 popular music; television
entrepreneurs 39
,
218 –219
epistemic capital 235
,
250 –252
epistemology 27
of conspiracies 50
,
73 –74 79 –85
of miracles 71 –72 74
Epsilon Team, epsilonism 362
,
366 –368 384 –385
anti-Semitism 368 –369 372 –373 376 –381
DNA 373 –374 376 –379
history 370 –373
imagined community 383 –384
Pelasgianism 374
pyramids 374 –376
socio-economic factors 378
terrorism 366 –367
Erdoğan, Recep Tayyip 416 –417
Erikson, Kai 154
eschatology 455 –456
Aum Shinrikyo 398
,
404
Buddhist 285
,
289
epsilonism 376
,
379 –385 apocalypticism (end of the world); verificationism, eschatological
eschatology, Russian 424
,
428 –438 444
,
456
432
,
444 –445
Moscow as the Third Rome 430 –431 432
,
436 –438 Dugin, Alexander
esoteric discourse 40 –41 207
esotericism 207 –208
and Christianity 210
concept and history of 208 –214
and conspiracy as religion 40 –41
and Pelasgianism 351
as religious surrogate 58 –59
esotericism and conspiracy theories 60
,
63
,
207 –215 223 –227 238
inversions of 40
,
214
,
217 –218
mirroring in 215
esoteric knowledge 40 –41
marginalisation of 41 spirituality
Establishment, the 56 –57 211
,
219
,
225
,
475
,
516
ethnic cleansing 279
,
346
,
352
eugenics 165
Eurabia theory 8
,
529
Evangelicalism
New World Order 96 –97 158
against popular music 185
,
189 –190
using popular music 189 –190
Satanism 96 –97 138 –140 142
event cognition 37
event schemas 38
everything is connected 62
,
183
,
188
,
464
,
516
evil. see problem of evil; theodicies
Evola, Julius 453
,
482
,
486
evolution 61
evolutionary adaptation 90
exogenous conspiracy 180
,
182
,
184
,
190
,
201 –202
exorcisms 140 –142
Exorcist, The 136n2
,
147
experts
access to 110
distrust of 53
,
159
interpretive contest 51 –52
reliance on 155 –156
explanations
conspiracy providing 50
(dis)similar, in conspiracy/religion 71
,
73
,
75 –85
science, lacking 71
exposure to conspiracy theories 95
extraterrestrials 55
,
250 –251 366
,
380 –381 518
in David Icke’s work 244
,
250 –251
epsilonism 367 –368 371 –373 376
Falun Gong 498
fable 35 –36
Facebook 117
,
166
,
169
,
273
,
282
,
350
Fairbairn, Nicholas 184
faith. see belief
Faivre, Antoine 215
Fallmerayer, Jakob Philipp 363 –364 378
,
383
false consciousness 56 –57
false-flag theories 118
,
243
falsifiability 50
,
79 –81 84
Falun Dafa 497
Falun Gong 490 –492 494 –508
academic study of 490
apocalypticism 496 –497 501
ban by Chinese government 492
,
499
,
506
Buddhism 495 –496
dualism 496
exercises 495 –496
extraterrestrials 498
folk religion 495 –496
government persecution 490 –491 495
,
499 –501 505 –508
morality 494
,
496 –497
New York Times 501
persecution of Western academics 503 –504
reincarnation 496
,
502 –503
salvation 494
,
497
,
501
science 496 –498
self-immolations 499 –503
Taoism 495 –496
theology 496 –498
UFOs 496
Western perceptions of 491
,
496
,
499 –502 504 –505 507 –508
Falun Gong Research Society 494
fan culture, compared to religion 193 –196 199
Fanon, Frantz 304
,
315
al-Farabi 308
fascism 1 –2 305
,
459 –466 469
,
485
fashen 495
feminism 214
,
238
,
296
,
435
Fields, Edward R. 481
films 56
,
58
,
61
,
431n12
,
437
New World Order 96
Satanism 136
,
147
Filofei of Pskov 430
financial gain, accusations of 39 –40 53 –54 248 –249
Fitzgerald, Timothy 187
Five Percenters 160
flags
Buddhist 169
,
282
Sunwheel emblem 471
Florenskii, Pavel 429
folklore 34
folk music 188
folk wisdom 110
Ford, Jerry 191
foreign cultural products in South Africa 147 –148
foreign forces endangering Buddhism 262 –265 268
,
270
,
272
,
274
,
290
,
293 Tamil
Foucault, Michel 532
panopticon 55
will to truth 51
Fourakis, Ioannis 369
,
371 –372
14 Words, The 479
4th of August Regime 370
fragility of herd behaviour 123
frame extension 415
frames, frame analysis 410 –411 414 –415 418 –419
Franks, Bradley 464 –465
Freemasonry 200
,
213
,
215
,
314
,
323 –326 395 –396 403 anti-Masonic conspiracism
free will 75n6
French Revolution 6
,
323
,
331
,
393
Freud, Sigmund 48
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster 89
Ganchen Lama 168
Garland, Judy 191
gematria 215 –216
gender identity 531 –532
generalist view of conspiracy theories 74
,
85
genocide 351 –352
Gentile, Emilio 463
GHQ (General Headquarters) 392 –393
Gibb, Russ 198
Gieryn, Thomas 51
Gilhus, Ingvild 521
Gkiolvas, Georgios 369
,
373
glasnost 433
Glazunov, Il’ia 437 –438
global awakening 236
,
239
Buddhist 262
,
289
global conspiracies 7
,
75 –76 272
,
280
,
305
,
330 –331 435 under anti-Muslim conspiracism; under Islamist conspiracies; Judeo-Masonic, global plot; superconspiracies; world domination/government
globalisation 63
,
247
and Buddhism 283
of conspiracies 16
and Pelasgianism 347
globalism, globalists 243
,
248
global warming 92
,
95
,
157
,
251
glocalisation of conspiracies 16
,
347
,
528 –529
Gnanasara, Galagoda Aththe 284
gnosis 238
God 75
as a conspirator 76 –77
punishment by 89
,
91
,
95
,
431
Godwin, Jeff 189
Goertzel, Ted 157 –158
Goffman, Ervin 55 –56 410
going viral 119 –123
Golden Dawn 361
Goldman, Neville 140
Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas 464
Google
Bilderberg meeting 165
searches and going viral 120 –122
Gorbachev, Mikhail 397
gospel music 190
goth music 184
Grant, Judith 335
grassy knoll 162
Gray, Matthew 303 –304 307 –308 328
Great Experiment, The 438
Greece
362 –365 374
anti-Semitism 361 –362 368
,
379 –380
cultic milieu 366 –367 369
,
375
history 370 –371 379
junta period 370 –371 376 –377
Pelasgianism 345 –346 351 –353 367
,
374 –376
pseudo-history 362 –365 374
religion 364
,
369
,
372 –373 378 –380
ufology 365 –366
Greek antiquity 363 –365 370 –371 379 –381
Greek War of Independence 364
,
370
,
381 –382
Greene, Jack 191
Green Party 236
Griffin, Nick 481
,
483
Griffin, Roger 463
Grossman, Sid 200
group dynamics
identity 31
in/out 30 –32 153 –154 169
,
183
,
212 –213 217
,
220 –223
solidarity 4
,
169 –171 173
,
222
,
227 boundary work; loyalty and truth
group thinking. see collective thinking
Guénon, René 214
,
444
,
448
guerrilla enlightenment 520 –522
Gül, Abdullah 417
Gülen, Fethullah 418
gun control 118
Guo Lin 493
Hachiman Bookstore 398
halal certification 273 –274 288
,
292 –293
Halberstam, David 195
Halevy, Herzi 334
Hall, Manly P. 213 –214
Hamas 334
Hamas Charter 331
Hammer, Olav 234 –235 241
Hanegraaff, Wouter 40
,
61 –62 208 –211
Harada Minoru 398
Hare Krishna 164
Harper, Tim 198 –199
Harrington, Patrick 481
Harris, Eric 184
Harrison, George 194
,
198
Hart, Lowell 185
hasbara 249
al-Hawali, Safar 306 –307 315 –317
Hayasaka Takenori 403
Heath, Edward 245
Heaven’s Gate 5 –6
heavy metal 136
,
185
Hellenocentrism 362
,
367
,
369
Helter Skelter 199 –200
herd behaviour 119 –123
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn 211
,
213
,
217
Herzl, Theodor 409
Hess, Rudolf 470
heuristics 115
Hezbollah 327
,
334
Hick, John 83 –84
hidden masters 212 –213
High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) 392
Hinduism 94 –95 270
hip-hop culture 158 –161 201
historiosophy 428 –430
history of esotericism 208 –214
history of religion 35
,
209
Hitler, Adolf 453
,
466 –468 472 –475
Hofstadter, Richard 48
,
444
holistic thinking 93 –94 215
,
223 –224 485
holistic worldview 62
Holland, Derek 481
,
482
Holocaust 361 –362 394
,
483
Holocaust denial 470
,
476
,
483 –484
Homer 347 –348
homosexuality 48
,
139
,
141
,
435
Horkheimer, Max 56
Houston, Alex 190
Howard, Robert 215n7
,
216
Hoxha, Enver 346
,
350
,
353
Hubbard, L. Ron 514
,
518 –519
Hume, David 71 –72 74
,
78
humour 162
,
520 –524
Husayn, Sharif 328
al-Husseini, Hajj al-Amin 305
hyperdiffusionism 374 –376
Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, Muhammad 306
Ibn Sina 308
Icke, David 63
,
234 –236 240 –241 518
244
Bilderberg Fringe Festival 163 –165
charismatic authority 242
,
244
,
246 –247 250
competing for capital 247 –249
epistemic capital 250 –251
false consciousness 57
,
60
popularity 237
,
241
prophecy 245 –246
reptilians 97
,
99
,
152
,
241
,
399
superconspiracy 59 –60 212
iconography 142 –143 148
idea dissemination 119 –123
identity formation 7
,
31
,
154
,
173
969 Movement 282
cultic milieu 211 –212 215
,
221 –222 227
Greece 363 –364 370
Pelasgianism 349
,
355 –356
Satanism (South Africa) 134 racial identity
identity protection
motivated reasoning 30
,
220 –221 227
against social order 33 Buddhist protectionist ideology
ignorance 155 –156
Ikeda Daisaku 397
Illuminati 152
,
197
,
200 –202 212 –213 323
,
403
illusion of explanatory depth 156
Illyrian ancestry 350
imagining hypotheticals 24
,
37
immigration, immigrants 249n11
,
268
,
296
,
298
,
378
,
381
immortalisation 195
Imperial Fascist League 469
Inbar, Efraim 334
indigenous South African beliefs 143
individualism 33
,
57
,
237
,
513
,
519
information environment 118
InfoWars 117
,
157
,
244
,
248
in-group. see group dynamics
Institute for Russian Civilisation 432
intentions, attributing 26
,
29 –30 33
,
49
,
76
,
223
,
227
to accidents 61 –62 89
International Conference on Multiple Personality/Disassociation 137
International Shugden Community (ISC) 166 –171
Internet
anti-Zionism 327
blaming for problems 106 –108
charismatic authority 246 –247
dissemination mechanics 119 –123
epsilonism 369
,
375 –377
Falun Gong 496
,
501
interest in conspiracies 117
,
120 –122
Pelasgianism 350
prophecies 246
refutation of conspiracies 110 –111 118
reinforcing conspiracies 111
spread of conspiracies 106 –112 114 –124 321
interpretive drift 62
intuition 156
irrational
conspiracy as 28
,
48
,
50 –53 73 –74 152
,
154
critique of conspiracy as 52 –53 57
,
64
Irving, David 476
,
483
ISC (International Shugden Community) 166 –171
ISIS 312 –313 333 –336
Islam
786 282
,
293
Five Percenters 160
niqab 291 –292
pan-Islamism 310
and vaccines 3 Muslims (geographic); Qur’an; Salafism; sharia
Islamic mysticism 413
Islamisation 8
,
280
,
283 –284 286 –287 294
conversion 258
,
272
,
283
,
296
demographic jihad 289
,
295
marriage 296 –297
rape 284
,
295 –296
reproduction 258
,
272 –273 283 –284 294 –295
Islamist conspiracies 303 –304 310
global Jewish conspiracy 305
,
324 –326 330 –331 336
Iranian coup 303
,
308
Israeli involvement 312 –314 316
,
321
,
330 –336
as a political tool 310 –314 317
Western involvement 311 –317 321
Islamist conspiracism roots 304 –305 304
,
307 –308 317
anti-Semitism 305
,
330
crusaderism 305 –306
dilution of Islam 307
historical underpinning 306
Manichaeism 304
,
306 –307 316
rationalism 308 –313 317
Islamophobia
Alex Jones 248
terminology 280 anti-Muslim conspiracism
Islamophobia, Buddhist 271 –274 279 –284 286 –291 297 –300
anti-Semitism 287
bogeyman 288
greed 287 Buddhist groups, anti-Islamic; Islamisation; narrative, of Buddhism as imperilled
Italo-Albanese 345
Jackson, Michael 195
,
198
James, William 87
,
89
Japanese conspiracy culture
Hachiman Bookstore 398
Jewish plot 399
Japan Self-Defense Forces 391 –392
Jatika Hela Urumaya (JHU) 271
Jayanti festival 262 –263 266
Jay-Z 200 –202
Jeffries, Paul 484
Jehovah-1 (WOTAN) 515
,
519 –520
Jerusalem 325
,
434
Jesuits 214
,
323 –324
Jesus Christ 423
,
448
fake death 196
Icke’s Masters 244
in lyrics 182
return of 157
Jesus Christ Superstar 190
Jews
in the Arabic world 322 –323 330 –333
in Greece 378 –379 anti-Semitic conspiracism; anti-Semitism; Dönme community
JFK assassination 70
,
112
,
162
Jiang Zemin 501
,
506
jihad 291
,
330
,
332 under Islamisation
John Birch Society 96
,
186
,
236
,
399
Jones, Alex 39
,
157
,
234 –236 240 –241
apocalypticism 97
,
239n1
Bilderberg Fringe Festival 163 –165
black rappers 161
charismatic authority 242 –243 246 –247 250
Christianity 244
competing for capital 248 –249
Planned Parenthood 157n3
popularity of 117
,
237
,
241
prophecies 242 –246
Jonker, Kobus 140
,
146 –147
Jordan, Colin 6
,
470 –472 474
,
480
Judas Priest 189
Judeo-Masonic, global plot 7
in Arabian/Islamist conspiracism 305
,
316
,
324 –326 330 –331 335
in Aum Shinrikyo 399
in Dugin’s work 444 –445 450
in the Efendi series 414
,
419
in Europe 323 –324 335
in Greece 378
in neo-Nazism 478
,
481
in Russia 425 –429 435
Judeophobia. see anti-Judaism
just-world beliefs 88
,
92
,
94 –95
Kahan, Dan 220
Kallis, Aristotle 462
,
466
Kanellos, Stephanos 382
karma 94 –95 395 –396 401 –402 404
in Falun Gong 495 –496 502 –503
katechon 430 –431 436 –438 448
,
454
,
456
Keddie, Nikki 308
Kelsang Gyatso 167 –168 170
Kemalism 411 –412
Kennedy, John F., assassination of 70
,
112
,
162
Keramydas, Anestis S. 369
,
372 –373
Khan, Sayyid Ahmad 309 –310
al-Khūrī, ‘Awād 324 –326
King, George 518
King, Martin Luther 157
Klassen, Ben 475
Klebold, Dylan 184
Knight, Peter 33
,
52
knowledge 155
conspiracy as 26 –31 299
effects of specialisation 155
special, abnormal 27
special, sacred 26
,
36 esoteric knowledge; stigmatised knowledge
Knowles, Beyonce 200
Kollias, Aristheidis 352 –353
Korais, Adamantios 364
,
382
Kotze, Gerhard 139
Küçük, Yalçın 409
,
412
Kundeling Rinpoche (Lobsang Yeshi) 168
Kurds 411
LA.O.S. (Laikos Orthodoxos Synagermos) 361
LaBianca, Leno 199
Lake House Newspapers 263 –267
Lama Zopa 167
Lane, David 478 –480 486
Larson, Bob 184 –185 190
Lasn, Kalle 517
Last Judgement 423
,
430
,
447
LaVey, Anton 216
League of St. George 481
,
483
Led Zeppelin 199
Leese, Arnold 469 –470
Lefkofrydis, George 371 –372 380
Left Behind 96
,
435 –436
legends 35 –36
Legion of the Archangel 481
Lennon, John 194
,
198 –199 394
Leuchter, Fred 483
Levi, Joseph 325
Levitt, Norman 363
Levy, Neil 154
,
156
Liakopoulos, Dimosthenis 369
,
373
Libertarianism 236
,
247
Liberty Intelligence Inc. 399
Liberty Lobby 399
,
475
Li Chang 494
Lifton, Robert Jay 398
Li Hongzhi 491
,
494 –498 501 –502 505
flight to the US 495
,
505
limited information 119
,
123
Lincoln, Bruce 35 –36 462 –463
Lippman, Walter 114
Lobsang Gyatso 170
locus of control. see under control
London Protocol (1830) 363
Losev, Aleksei 429
Lovecraft, H.P. 515
Lowkey 159
loyalty and truth 11
,
168
,
171 –173
LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) 269
,
271
,
274
,
291 –292
Lucifer. see Devil, the
Luckmann, Thomas 55
,
59
Luhr, Eileen 185
Luo Gan 499
Luo Guili 500
Lynch, Gordon 181
MaBaTha 281 –283 288 –290 294
,
298 –299
magazines on Aum Shinrikyo 391
,
395
,
398
,
401
Mahāvaṃsa 268
,
285
Mahayana 396
al-Mahdi, Sadiq 311
mainstream media 110 –111 117 –118
Maler, Arkadii 437
malice, as a trait of conspiracy 77 –78 95
Manichaeism 304
,
306 –307 316
,
429
,
438
,
464
,
467
Mann, Paul 514
Manson, Charles 199 –202
Manson, Marilyn 184
Mappo 394
,
396
Māra 264
,
267
,
269
,
275 –276 396
,
403
Marcuse, Herbert 56
marginalisation
by academics 41
of conspiracy beliefs 152 –154
of esoteric ideas 41
,
209
,
211 –212 221
feeling of (South Africa) 145
feeling of (Sri Lanka) 258 –259 276
,
284
,
292
of knowledge-claims 28 –29 155
,
218
Marinatos, Spyridon 376 –377
Mark of the Beast 96
Maronites 324 –325
Marrs, Jim 93
,
212
Marrs, Texe 189
Marxism 56
,
221
,
312 –313 428 –429 432
,
468
,
473
Masonry. see Freemasonry
material goods 39
,
218 –219
materialism 15
,
429
,
432
,
436 –437 517
,
520
,
524 consumerism; under Aum Shinrikyo conspiracism
Matrix, The 61
,
97
Matthews, Robert 478 –479 482 –484
McCartney, Paul 198 –199
McMahon, Marcia 194
meaning
conspiracy providing 31
,
33
,
50
,
60 –63 65
,
424
existential, lack of 59
spirituality providing 59 –61 65
,
513
struggles over 28 –29 144
,
218 explanations
Mecca 322
,
375n31
media. see Internet; magazines on Aum Shinrikyo; mainstream media; newspapers; television
mediatisation of conspiracism 529
medicine, Western 492 –493 big pharma
Medina 305
,
307
,
322
,
330
Meiktila, 2013 riots 293 –295
Mein Kampf 467 –468 478
,
481
Melley, Timothy 33
Melton, J. Gordon 513
memorability 97 –99
Merkel, Angela 378
Messiah 408 –409 427
metahistory 428 –430
Metaxas, Ioannis 370
Metropolitan Ioann 432
Mettananda, Lokusatu Hewa 262 –270
Michelle Remembers 137
microchips 96
,
158
,
393 –394 434
,
531
millenarianism 39
,
173
,
207
,
222
,
496
millennial conspiracism 5 –6 236 –237
end time 157 –158 173
epsilonism 368
financial gain 248 –249
hidden masters 212 –213
material goods 39
rejection of religion 237
utopian 222n12 Icke, David; Jones, Alex
millennialism 5
,
96
,
158
,
173
,
236 –237
Miller, Edith Starr 213
millet system 379
mind control 57
,
60
,
186
,
190 –192 201 under Aum Shinrikyo conspiracism; MK-ULTRA; Project Monarch
mindfulness 120 –121
minimal counterintuitiveness 37
,
88
,
97 –99
minimal effects model 115
miracles 71 –74
mistrust. see scepticism
Miyada Shinji 398
MK-ULTRA 190
,
392
Monroe, Marilyn 195
moral entrepreneurs 133 –134
moral panic 133
,
136
,
181
,
189
Morrison, Jim 195
,
198
Moscovici, Serge 491
,
505
Moscow 430 –431 432
,
436 –438
Mosley, Oswald 469 –470
Mossad 312
,
329
,
333 –334 483
Mossadeq, Mohammad 303
motivated reasoning 220 –221 226 –227
motives 25 –26
monetary 39 –40 53 –54 248 –249 518
,
522 –523
movies. see films
Muhammad, the Prophet 306 –307 322
,
330
murders 379
Alan Berg 478
Christians 435
Manson family 199 –200
Russian Tsar 431
Satanism 139
,
143
,
149
Tibetans 170 anti-Muslim violence; ethnic cleansing
Musaddiq, Muhammad 308
music. see popular music
musicians
deaths of 180
,
194 –199
doppelgangers 198 –199
mind controlled 192
transfiguration of 194 –196 202
Muslim Brotherhood 305
,
330 –332
Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt 303
Muslims. see anti-Muslim conspiracism; anti-Muslim violence
Muslims (geographic) 7
,
157
Myanmar 12
,
279
,
282
Sri Lanka 258
,
271 –274 279
,
283 –284
Turkey 14 Rohingyas
muti 143
Mutti, Claudio 453
Mystery of the Twentieth Century 438
mythemes 36 –37 42
mythology of secret societies 211 –212
myths 35 –36 42
of decline 285 –287
of deracination 285 –286 289 Illyrian ancestry; Pelasgianism; Secret Schools (Kryfa Scholeia)
Nalanda, destruction of 286
narrative, of Buddhism as imperilled 258 –262 266 –268 275 –276 285 –287 290
narratives
conspiracy as 25 –26 31 –42 145
,
259 –261
cultural studies 33
,
39
situatedness 32 –33
style 32 conspiracy stereotypes; counter-narrative; frames, frame analysis; rumour
NASA 372 –373
National Action 486
National Alliance 475 –477 479
,
483 –485
National Center for Child Abuse and Neglect 138
National Front 470
,
480 –481
National Islamic Front (NIF) 310 –312
nationalism 5 –6
African 134
,
144
Albanian 344
,
346 –347
Arab 303
,
308
,
323
Buddhist 281
,
283
,
292
,
295 –296 298
Greek 362 –365 374
neo-Nazi 471
Sri Lankan 257 –258 261
,
271
,
283
Turkish 411
,
413 Sinhalatva
National Party (NP) 133
,
142
,
144 –145 147
National Socialist Group (NSG) 480 –481
National Socialist Movement (NSM) 471 –472
National Socialist White People’s Party (NSWPP) 474 –475
National States Rights Party 481
National Youth Alliance 475
Nation of God and Earth. see Five Percenters
Nation of Islam 161
,
239n1
,
375n31
natural disasters 88 –89 368
,
401
nature
holistic view 62
sacred 60
Nazarov, Mikhail 431
Nazism 462 –467
anti-Semitism 462
,
464
,
467 –468
existential threats 462
,
467
purification 463
,
466
religious elements 462 –466
revival, redemption 462 –463 466 neo-Nazism
Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk. see NGK (Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk)
nefariousness. see malice, as a trait of conspiracy
Negativland 516
Neil, Andrew 247
Nental Ife 519
neo-Nazism 461
,
468 –486
14 Words, The 479
anti-Christian 472
anti-Semitism 465
,
469 –471 473 –480 482 –485
Christianity 477 –479 481
,
486
Communist Jews 470
,
478
Cosmotheism 475 –477
cultic milieu 463 –465 469 –474 478
,
480 –482 484 –486
definition 465
Holocaust denial 470
,
476
,
483 –484
idealising Hitler 472 –475 477
,
480
martyrs 473 –474 479
,
482 –483
Marxism 473 –474
paganism 479
,
481
,
486
purification 471
racial nationalism 471
religious elements 471 –472 474 –475 484 –486
revival, redemption 473 –474 476
,
480
,
484 –486
Wotanism 479 Nazism
neo-Nazism, American 472 –482 486
neo-Nazism, British 469 –472 480 –486
Neopaganism 238
,
367
,
369
,
372
Neoplatonism 210
New Age movements 5
,
59 –60 238
cognitive characteristics 224 –226
individualism 237 –238
non-formative authority 240
in Pelasgianism 357
spirituality 60
New Atheism 8
New Boots And Panties!! 182
New Christian Crusade Church 477 –478
Ne Win 288
New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) 166 –167 171
New Left 185
New Middle East Project 336
New Religious Movements (NRMs) 7 –8 209
,
239
,
513
newspapers
on Satanism 133
,
140 –141 144
,
146 –147 148
on the spread of conspiracies 112 –113
in Sri Lankan conspiracies 263 –267 274
Newtown shooting 118
New World Order 96 –97 158
,
162
,
190
,
393
,
400
,
435
,
437
,
443
in Dugin’s work 443
,
450
,
452
New York Times, The 106
,
109
,
112 –113 475
,
501
NGK (Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk) 134
,
141 –142
Nicholas II 430 –431
Niebuhr, H. Richard 182
Nietzsche, Friedrich 379
,
472
,
483
Nilus, Sergei 426 –428 438
,
447
9/11 conspiracies 117
,
157
,
215 –216 243
,
327
NKT (New Kadampa Tradition) 166 –167 171
Noebel, David 185 –188
Northern European Ring 471
Norway 257
,
274
,
356
Nostradamus 390n2
nothing happens by accident 61 –62 152
,
183
,
188
,
202
,
464
,
516
nothing is as it seems 60
,
152
,
186
,
188
,
464
,
516
NP. see National Party (NP)
Number of the Beast 394 –395 433 –434
numerology 197
,
215 –216 353
Nuremberg rally 466
Nyi Nyi Kyaw 286
Obama, Barack 121 –122 159
,
241
,
368
O’Brien, Cathleen Ann 190 –192
occult, the 41
,
138n4
,
139 –140
occult apostasy 217 –218
occultism 192
,
209
,
211 –212 368
,
398
,
435
Occult-Related Crimes Unit 140
occulture 59
official stories/accounts
(dis)trust of 53
,
156 authority
Oklahoma City bombing 73 –74 394
,
484
Olympians, Olympic gods 352
,
372
,
375 –376
Only Theatre of Pain 182
onomastics 416
Oomoto 398
Operation Cyclone 333
Operation Mindfuck 521
Operation Yewtree 245
opinions 114 –115 belief
Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) 207
,
211
,
217 –218
Organisation of the Islamic Conference 3
Orthodox Christianity
in Greece/epsilonism 364
,
369
,
372 –373 379 –382
in Russia 426 –427 430n9
,
432 –433
ostensive action 34
Oswald, Lee Harvey 112
Ota Ryu 398 –399
othering 41
,
149
,
208
,
217
,
221
,
258
,
281
Ottoman Empire 328
,
363
,
367
,
379
,
381 –383 408 –409 414
Ouija board 139
out-group. see group dynamics
Ownby, David 490
paedophilia 108
,
137
,
162
,
190 –191 245
paganism 209 –210 479
,
481
,
486
Palestine 328 –329 332
,
409
,
482
panic. see conspiracy panic; moral panic; Satanism
pantheistic spirituality 60
Paparrigopoulos, Konstantinos 364
paranoia
conspiracy dismissed as 48
,
53
rationality of 52 –53
in Satanism 147 –148
as sociological discourse 57
parody religion 514
particularist view of conspiracy theories 74
,
85
Partridge, Christopher 380 –381
Party of Truth 395
pass book system 135
pathologising conspiracy 49
,
53
,
303
,
407
patternicity 88 –92 correspondences
Pazder, Lawrence 137
Pearl Harbor 393
Pelasgianism 13
,
343 –344
Arvanites 345
,
351 –353
critique of fanaticism 353 –355
and epsilonism 374 –376
European integration 354 –356
foreign influence 348
,
353
,
356
Illyrian ancestry 350
,
354
language 345
,
347
,
349
,
352
,
354
nationalism 347 –348
rejected knowledge 347 –349
religion 347 –349 351 –355 357
People’s Republic of China. see China
Peoples Temple 6
,
152
perestroika 433
pharmaceutical industry 53
,
112
,
158
,
219 –220
Phillips, Marquart Ewing 190
,
192
phrenoloy 349
Pierce, William 474 –477 479 –480 483 –484 486
Pigden, Charles 82
,
154
Pipes, Daniel 303
,
307
,
327 –329
Planned Parenthood 157n3
Platonov, Oleg 432
Polanski, Roman 199
polarisation 106
,
111
polio vaccine. see vaccines
Political Soldier 481 –482
politics
Albanian 350
American 157
and hip-hop 159
Middle Eastern 307 –308 311 –314 328
South African 142
,
144 –145
Sri Lankan 262 –264 268 –269 274
Turkish 411
,
413 –415 Buddhist protectionist ideology
polygamy 283
Popper, Karl 21
,
87
,
90
,
155
conspiracy theory of society 48 –49 70
,
81
,
144
falsifiability 79 –81
popular culture 32
,
152
,
201
,
216
Albanian 344 –345
Satanism 147 –148
Turkish 410
,
412
popularity of conspiracies. Internet; spread of conspiracies
popular music
Christian 189 –190
Christianity against 182 –190 201
history of anti-popular 185 –186
and mind control 190
,
192
,
201
and Satanism 136
,
139
,
147
subversive, malign power of 180
,
183 –184 186 –189 200 –201
transgressive 181 –182 201
P-Orridge, Genesis 184
positivism 83
possession 139 –141 147
power 2 –3 41
,
366
and conspiracy/religion 22
relations 407
,
411
,
413
social 133
,
156
struggles over 28 –29 42
,
51
,
144 –145 292
,
467 –468 authority; marginalisation
power elite 57
,
64
,
524
predispositions 111
,
115 –118 157
,
208
presidents. see JFK assassination; Obama, Barack
Presley, Elvis 195 –196 198
probabilistic reasoning 92 –93
problem of evil 75
,
79
,
85
profane, the 180 –185 187 –189
Professor Griff 201
Project Monarch 190 –192
pronoia 62
propaganda
anti-Muslim 258
,
289
anti-Western 268
Falun Gong/Chinese 491
,
499 –500
grey 335 –336
Iranian 305
jihadist 332
Nazi 324 –325 335
South African 144 –145 147
prophecy 242 –246 251
,
424
,
430
failure of 5
,
38 –39 243
,
245 –246 251 rolling prophecy
Prophet, Mark L. 518
Protestantism 85
,
187
,
237 –238 413
,
515
,
527 –528
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The 7
,
324
,
425 –426
in Aum Shinrikyo 399 –400
in Greek, Orthodox circles 379 –380
in Islamist use 316
,
324 –327 330 –332
in (neo-) Nazi circles 462
,
468
in Russian circles 425 –428 433
,
435
,
445
,
455
Providence 75
,
77 –79 83 –85 423
pseudo-history 362 –365 374
pseudoscience 50
,
496 –497
psychological traits 87 –94 223 –227
psychology and narrative 33 –34
psychology of conspiracy 4
,
26
,
29 –31 87 –88
psychology of religion 4
,
87 –88
purification 54
,
65
,
265
Puritans 154
pyramids 216
,
374 –376
al-Qaradāwī, Yūsuf 331
Qi 493
Qigong Fever 494
Qigong 493 –495
in public places 493
unscientific 494 –495
Qur’an 282
,
307
,
315
,
322 –323 330
,
332
,
335
Qutb, Sayyid 303
,
305
,
330 –332
Race Relations Acts 480
race suicide 135
race war 136
,
144
,
200
racial demonology 145
racial identity
African-American 157
,
159 –161
black (South-African) 135
,
143
white (Albanian) 349
white (American) 157
,
473
,
477
,
481
white (South Africa) 133 –136 141 –145 149
Raëlian Movement 365 –366
Rāhula, Valpaḷa 262
Rajapakse, Mahinda 273 –275
Rakhine 279
,
290 –292 295 –296 298
rape 136
,
191
,
284
,
289
,
295 –296 332
rap music, rappers 159 –161 185
,
198
,
200 –201
Rath, Mattias 219
rationalism. Islamist conspiracism roots
rationality
of paranoia 52 –53
of Protestantism 187
of science 51 irrational
rationality, expressive 220
rationality, instrumental 56
,
63
reception, cognitive 37 –38 cognitive science of religion; minimal counterintuitiveness
record companies 186
Reddit 111
Red Scare 112
,
505
re-enchantment 63
,
513
Reformation 6
,
40
,
209
rejected knowledge 40
,
161
,
221
,
516
Aum Shinrikyo 398
Pelasgianism 347 –349
Western esotericism 208 –211 218 stigmatised knowledge
religion
building blocks 24
,
39
conceptualisation 5
,
21 –24 39
,
42
opposing conspiracism 530
rejection of 237 belief; Buddhism; Christianity; esotericism; spirituality
Renaissance 210
,
429
Renan, Ernest 309 –310
reptilians 97
,
99
,
152
Republicans 115
,
157
Republic of China 492
revelation 36 –37 40
,
61
,
214
Revelation, Book of 200
,
423
Rıfai 413
,
418
right-wing movements 5 –7 213
,
236
,
247
on popular music 186 –188 Golden Dawn; La.O.S. (Laikos Orthodoxos Synagermos); Liberty Lobby; Nazism; neo-Nazism
ritual 36
,
100
,
143
,
197
,
200
,
435
,
449 Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA)
Robison, John 213
rock music 185
,
187 –189
Rockwell, George Lincoln 472 –475 480
Rohingyas 279
,
290 –292 295
rolling prophecy 38
,
245 –246
Rosemary’s Baby 136n2
,
147
Roswell UFO incident 152
Rothschild family 393
rumour 31
,
32
,
34
,
299
Satanism as 134
transmission of 110
Rüşdü, Karakaşzade 409
Russia Before the Second Coming (of Christ) 435
Russian conspiracism. see eschatology, Russian
Russian history. see historiosophy
Russian Revolution 427
sacred, the 180 –182 188
in nature 60
sacred forms 181 –182 201
and conspiracies 183
purity of the young 184 –185
sacred knowledge 26
,
36
sacred/profane dualism 182 –183
sacrifices
animal 141
,
146
,
149
human 149
,
197
Russian 429 –431
Sahwa movement 303
,
306
,
315 –316
Salafism 306
,
313
,
331
salience
conspiracy 36
,
38
religion 24
,
36
salvation
in Aum Shinrikyo 391
,
396
,
404
in Russian eschatology 423 –425 430
,
438
social 61 –64
spiritual 60 –61 64
,
473
,
494
San Bernardino (2015 attack) 111
,
118
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting 118
Sangha 264
,
279
,
281 –282 289
sarin gas 389
,
391
,
396 –397 401
,
403
sasana 269
,
285 –286 289
Satan. see Devil, the
Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) 7
,
137 –138 140
,
191
,
245
Satanism 7
,
134
,
136 –138 216
as global plot 96
,
143
marginalisation of 41
and popular music 189
,
192
in Russian metaphysics 429
Satanism (South Africa) 133 –134
Christianity 134
,
138 –143
communism 147 –148
cult 146 –147
foreign cultural products 147 –148
indigenous beliefs 143
politics 142
,
144 –145
possession 139 –141 147
rejection of psychology/psychiatry 138 –141
amongst youth 139
,
146 –148
Satanism: The Seduction of South Africa’s Youth 139
Savile, Jimmy 245
scapegoating 52
,
299
scepticism
towards conspiracies 54
,
110 –111 114 –116 118 –119 124
,
221
in mainstream media 111
,
118
towards modern society 52 –54 159
,
225
,
516
towards science 51
,
53 –54 154
,
251
in science 54
,
221 under Falun Gong
Scher, Paula 199
schizotypy 94
,
224
,
226 –227
Schonfield, Hugh 196
School of Buddhist Dialectics in Dharamsala 170
science
in China 492
,
494
as conspiracy 57
lacking meaning 59 under scepticism; under Falun Gong
Scientology 365
,
514
,
518 –519
Secret Schools (Kryfa Scholeia) 381 –383
secret societies 212 –213 217
,
362
,
367
,
369
,
382
,
408
,
445
secularisation 188
,
513
Albania 344
,
346
and Buddhism 283
,
300
against Islam 8
lack of meaning 59
,
65
in Russia 424 –426 conspiracy as religion
segregation 135
,
141 –143
self-knowledge 156
self-understanding
of conspiracy theorists 52 –55 59
of occultists 212
,
217
semiotic promiscuity 37
,
182 –183 186
,
200
,
202
,
215
separate development 135 –136
Serafim of Sarov 435
Serrano, Miguel 444
,
448
Sèvres Protocol 328
sexual abuse 137
,
190 –192 child abuse, sexual; paedophilia; rape
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 198 –199
Shakur, Tupac 195
,
198
Shambhala 395
sharia 311
,
314 –316
Shaw, Deborah 244 –245
Shaykhū, Luis 324
sheeple 236
,
238
shills 249
Shirer, William H. 466
shootings 111
,
118
,
184
,
271
,
313
Short Tale of the Antichrist 426 –427
Shugden 166 –171
Dolgyal 167
India 170
persecution 167 –168 171
Silent Brotherhood 478 –479
Sinason, Valerie 137 –138
Sinhalatva 257 –258 261
,
264
,
283
,
292
Sinhalese, Sinhala 257 –259 261 –265 272 –273 275
,
283 –284 290 –294
Sithagu Sayadaw 283
Situationist International (SI) 516 –518 520 –522
Slack 515
,
519 –520 523
Smith, Michelle 137
Snow, David 410
social constructivism 55 –56
social media 111
,
117 –118 166
,
169
,
171
,
237
,
246
,
273
,
282
,
284
,
299
,
350
social sciences 48 –49 54
,
120
legitimating its superiority 49
,
51
,
58
,
64
Society of the Spectacle, The 517
sociology 28 –31 55
,
181
affinity with conspiracy 57 –58
on the rise of cults 209
sociology, cultural 181
sociology of ignorance 155 –156
sociology of knowledge 155
sociology of religion 208
Soka Gakkai 390 –391 397
Solov'ev, Vladimir 426 –427 429
source authority. see authority
South Africa. see politics; Satanism (South Africa)
South African Defence Force (SADF) 146
Spearhead 471
special knowledge. see knowledge
spectacle, capitalist 516 –519 522
,
524
Spence, Hubert 190
Spengler, Oswald 473
SPIN 238 –239
spirituality 59 –60 237
,
391
holistic view 62
and nature 60
providing meaning 59 –61 65
,
513
spirituality, alternative 40
,
59
,
208
,
223
,
225
,
516
Spiritual Mission of the Third Rome, The 437
spiritual warfare 183
,
188
spokespersons 234
,
237
,
241
spread of conspiracies
academics on the 113
through the Internet 106 –112 114 –124 529
through mainstream media 118
newspapers on the 112 –113
through rumour 110
through social media 111
transnational 528 Internet
SRA. see Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA)
Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) 262
,
269
Sri Lankan Civil War 257
,
269
,
271 –271 274
,
298
Stained Class 189
Stang, Ivan 514
,
517
,
522 –523
Starr, Ringo 198
Star Wars 97
Steiner, Rudolf 214
Stella Matutina 217
stereotypes. see conspiracy stereotypes
stigmatised knowledge 27
,
155
,
161
,
211
,
215
,
516
218 rejected knowledge
conspiracy as a label 152
,
154
costs/benefits 221 –222
Stoddard, Christina M. 217
Stonehenge 481
Stop Islamisation of Norway (SIAN) 296
Stuckrad, Kocku von 40
style. see under narratives
SubGenius Pamphet #1 514
,
520
subjugation. see marginalisation
subliminal messages. backmasking
Sudanese Communist Party (SCP) 312
suicides 180
,
189
,
273
,
292
,
499 –500 502 –503
Summit Lighthouse 518
Summit Ministries
Sunday Mainichi 391
,
395
,
401
Sunstein, Cass 50 –51 111
,
161
superconspiracies 60
,
96 –97 188
,
196
,
212 –213 368 global conspiracies
supernatural 70
,
75 –77 79 –83 88
,
99
,
138
,
242 –244
supremacism 135
,
161
,
399
,
477
Supreme Mathematics 160
Swift, Wesley 477
synthetic knowledge 243
,
245
,
250 –251
Syria 329
,
333 –334 336
,
378
system justification 92
,
95
Takeda Sugen (Yoichi) 398
Takeuchi Document, The 398
Taliban 333
Tamil 269
,
275
,
291 –292
as enemies of Buddhism 258
,
262
,
268
,
271
independent state 274
Tantra-vajrayana 396
Taoism, in Falun Gong 495 –496
Tate, Sharon 199
Taves, Ann 23 –24 36
,
252
Tavistock Institute 394
Taxil hoax 216
Tea Party 123
,
236
technocracy 55
teleology 61
,
183
,
428
,
468
television 517
Chinese 502
corrupting influence of 108
,
147
epsilonism 369
,
373
millennial conspiracism 237
,
244 –245 247 –248
Pelasgianism 350
Russian 436
,
445
Situationist critique of 517 –518
Tibetan 170
Turkish 412
,
418
Templars 61
,
215
,
323
Temporary Autonomous Zones 521 –522
terrorism 111
,
117 –118 243
,
273
,
313
,
332 –333 354
,
366 –367 478
,
482
Tesla, Nikola 368
Thein Sein 282
,
291
,
298
theodicies 5
,
38
,
50
,
61
,
183
,
219
,
400
,
402
Theosophical Society 213 –214 287n15
Theosophy 207
,
214
,
347
,
351
,
353
,
368
,
380
Thida Htway 295
thin boundaries 224 –227
Third Rome 430 –431 432
,
436 –438
Tikhomirov, Lev 429
Tokyo subway sarin attack 389
,
391
,
396 –397 401
,
403
Tomor, Mount 350 –351
Tooney, Christine 194
townships 135n1
traditional Chinese medicine 492 –493
transmission of conspiracies. see spread of conspiracies
Treating Survivors of Satanist Abuse 137
Trump, Donald
and Alex Jones 236
,
241
,
244
,
248
Birtherism 121
Dalai Lama 171 –172
Tseta Rinpoche 170
tsunamis 88 –89 327
Tsutiya Masami 403
Tupac Shakur 195
,
198
al-Turabi, Hasan 309 –314 317
Tuskegee syphilis experiments 157
27 Club 196 –198
Twitter 111
,
171 –172
Tyndall, John 470 –472 480 –481 484
UFOs, ufology 152
,
335
,
347
,
365 –366 380
,
435
,
518
in COSG 515
,
518
in Falun Gong 496
uncertainty, effect of 37
,
88
,
110
,
225
,
505
underdog mentality 343
,
357
,
377
Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) 298
Uno Masami 399
UNP (United National Party) 263
,
266 –270
vaccines 3
,
5
,
95
,
112
,
295
,
531
VanderJagt, Guy 191
Vatican 263
,
397
,
450
Ventura, Jesse 248
verificationism, eschatological 84
verificationism, in philosophy of science 83 –84
V for Vendetta 164
Victor, Jeffrey 189
Vijayawardhana, D.C. 264
,
267 –268
viral, going 119 –123
Vision of Father John of Kronstadt, The 428
,
435
Vlok, Adriaan 148
Voice of America 170
volksgees 134
Vorster, John 145
Waco 6
,
152
,
154
Wahhabism 316
Wang Zhiwen 494
Warner, James K. 477 –478 480 –481
Washington Post, The 106
,
111
,
113
,
475
Watergate 82
Waters, Anita 145
Watkins, Paul 200
Webb, James 516
Weber, Max
charisma 235
,
242
,
249
disenchantment 58 –60 63
,
65
,
424
iron cage 55
religious theodicy 50
Webster, Nesta Helen 213
Weeraratne, Senaka 269 –271
WEIRD 1
,
532
wheel of the law 495 –496
White Album, The 198 –200
whiteness. racial identity
White Power music scene 482
white privilege 133
,
135
,
143
,
145
Wirathu, U 282 –283 290
,
293
,
295 –298
witchcraft 138n4
,
143
,
184
,
195
Withanage, Dilanthe 290
Wizard Of Oz 191
Wood, Matthew 235
,
240
Woodrow, Wilson 414
world domination/government 7
,
96 –97 214
,
272
,
280
,
288
,
392 –393 397
,
400
,
435
,
443 –444 455 Judeo-Masonic, global plot
World Union of National Socialists (WUNS) 472 –474
World Zionist Organisation 409
Wotanism 479
X-Day 515
,
522
X-Files 58
Xi Jinping 508
Xists 515
,
519 –520 522
Yalçın, Soner 408 –409 412 –419
Yetis 515
,
519
,
524
Yinon plan 329
,
336
Young People’s Records 186
Youth International Party (Yippie) 517
Yu Changxi 494
Zagami, Leo 217 –218
Zambelios, Spyridon 364
Zeitgeist movement 56
Zevi, Sabbatai 408 –409 414
Zheji, Petro 350
Zimbabwe-fication 144
Zionazism 367
Zionism 324
,
326 –327 335 –336 373
,
381
,
409
,
432
,
478
,
480
Zoroastrianism 307