Meaning of conspirituality | Babel Free

Definitions

A political and spiritual ideology that combines alternative or New Age beliefs with conspiracy theories.

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Examples

“A hybrid of conspiracy theory and alternative spirituality has appeared on the internet. The existence of such a synthesis has previously been noted in passing (Barkun; Goodrick-Clarke), but no detailed account has yet been given of what, for the sake of convenience, we call ‘conspirituality’.”

““Conspirituality” prompts us to focus on the cross-sections of conspiracy culture and alternative spirituality, and to the internal tensions there”

“Conspirituality, in fact, helps describe some of the dynamics and one of the “contexts” in which Italian Pagan conspiracy-believing is embedded—one that, at a more general level, is characterized by what Christopher Partridge (e.g., 2004; 2005; 2014) defined as occulture.”

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