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QAnon and Other Replacement Realities: How Religious Emotion Threatens Free Society but Can Also Contribute to a Progressive Future

QAnon and Other Replacement Realities: How Religious Emotion Threatens Free Society but Can Also Contribute to a Progressive Future - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:George Lundskow, Sarah MacmillenPublish date:2023-11-15Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Lexington BooksISBN-13:9781666931884ISBN-10:1666931888UPC:9781666931884Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Sociology of Religion, Sociology, Conspiracy TheoriesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SC0ZPEGMZV

Q-Anon and Other Replacement Realities: How Religious Emotion Threatens Free Society but Can Also Contribute to a Progressive Future examines the historical and theological origins and the social-psychological effects of American conspiracy fantasies that Q-Anon and other right-wing beliefs foster. The authors argue that as progressive social change moves groups of people and the natural world from the margins to the mainstream, this inclusiveness "threat" mobilizes reactionary forces that embrace wild fantasies of Satanic sacrifice, Jewish global control, racial replacement, communism, cannibalism, pedophilia, orgies of rape and murder, and manipulations to steal elections and enslave the "normal" white population.

To counter such gratifying myths and replace violence with mutually reinforcing social interaction the authors challenge the rhetoric that abuses power. The book maps out an alternative to destructive, hateful, polarizing, and conspiratorial discourse, with new more life-giving rational, emotional, and spiritual orientations. The authors hope this will move American society towards a new collective national identity, based on inclusiveness and equality, around a social character defined by compassion, gratitude, reverence, and love.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Lexington BooksISBN-13:9781666931884ISBN-10:1666931888UPC:9781666931884Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Sociology of Religion, Sociology, Conspiracy TheoriesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SC0ZPEGMZV

George Lundskow is professor of sociology at Grand Valley State University.

Sarah Louise MacMillen is associate professor of sociology at Duquesne University.


Publisher: Lexington Books

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