{"id":72161,"date":"2019-10-03T09:22:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T07:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cini.it\/?post_type=cini_events&#038;p=72161"},"modified":"2025-01-31T10:05:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T09:05:19","slug":"international-conference-religious-dimensions-of-conspiracy-theories-connecting-old-and-new-trends","status":"publish","type":"cini_events","link":"https:\/\/www.cini.it\/en\/eventi\/international-conference-religious-dimensions-of-conspiracy-theories-connecting-old-and-new-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"International Conference Religious Dimensions of Conspiracy Theories: Connecting Old and New Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nowadays conspiracy theories not only have a significant presence in social media, but they\u00a0have also become part of mainstream culture. Despite this important presence in contemporary societies, conspiracy theories have been studied mainly from a political and cultural point of view, and only very recently have they begun to be studied more from the perspective of religion and alternative spirituality. Organised in\u00a0collaboration with Marco Pasi (University of Amsterdam) and Egil\u00a0Asprem (University of Stockholm), this conference sets out to contribute to filling this gap, especially by focusing on the religious and\u00a0esoteric dimensions of these theories.<br \/>\nEarlier research on conspiracy theories described them as irrational\u00a0and dangerous phenomena embodying what Bruno Latour would calla modern \u201cpractice of purification\u201d (1993), based on the strict separation of the rational from the irrational. On the other hand, more recent studies have stressed the importance of these phenomena by also considering how the distrust of political, economic and scientific institutions is often reasonable and that conspiracies sometimes do exist. Moreover, they also argued that the \u201contological insecurity\u201d of contemporary societies encourages scepticism and paranoia.<br \/>\nConspiracy theories also have an important political dimension. In fact, conspiracy theories provide an anti-hegemonic discourse against transnational powers, but also against what Foucault called the\u201cregime of truth\u201d, questioning the basis of knowledge production. Yet\u00a0they are also significant in terms of the phenomenon they are opposed\u00a0to because conspiracy theories are sometimes even exploited by those\u00a0holding hegemonic power.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cini.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Program-Conspiracy-conference-2-1.pdf\">Program Conspiracy conference<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"t3\">Event subscription form<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72156,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"cini_tax_event_categories":[1465],"cini_tax_institutes":[24],"cini_tax_event_locations":[1464],"class_list":["post-72161","cini_events","type-cini_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cini_tax_event_categories-meetings","cini_tax_institutes-comparative-studies-of-cultures-and-spiritualities","cini_tax_event_locations-island-of-san-giorgio-maggiore"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>International Conference Religious Dimensions of Conspiracy Theories: Connecting Old and New Trends - Fondazione Giorgio Cini<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cini.it\/en\/eventi\/international-conference-religious-dimensions-of-conspiracy-theories-connecting-old-and-new-trends\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"International Conference Religious Dimensions of Conspiracy Theories: Connecting Old and New Trends - Fondazione Giorgio Cini\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nowadays conspiracy theories not only have a significant presence in social media, but they\u00a0have also become part of mainstream culture. 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