Location
Virtual
Start Date
28-4-2022 5:30 PM
End Date
28-4-2022 7:00 PM
Description
We live in an age of conspiracy theories. Big companies, the media, the medical community, governments, and global elites stand accused of attempting to deceive the public by spreading fake information and manipulating technologies. Both online and offline, these theories are often supported by American Christian evangelicals, but why? The Department of Religion at Montclair State University invites you to explore this question and the implications of the answers in our third of three installments of the series Angry Religion: The Rise of American Theocracy — “Alternate Facts as Ultimate Reality” — a panel that discusses the intersections of conflicting worldviews, beliefs of interconnectivity, and disbeliefs in science/technology.
Alternate Facts as Ultimate Reality
Virtual
We live in an age of conspiracy theories. Big companies, the media, the medical community, governments, and global elites stand accused of attempting to deceive the public by spreading fake information and manipulating technologies. Both online and offline, these theories are often supported by American Christian evangelicals, but why? The Department of Religion at Montclair State University invites you to explore this question and the implications of the answers in our third of three installments of the series Angry Religion: The Rise of American Theocracy — “Alternate Facts as Ultimate Reality” — a panel that discusses the intersections of conflicting worldviews, beliefs of interconnectivity, and disbeliefs in science/technology.
Comments
Angry Religion: The Rise of American Theocracy explores how religion is fueling a rise of acrimony among the US polity on issues of race, gender, public health, and sources of information by examining three contemporary developments: the specter of white Christian nationalism, anti-mask and anti-vaccine stances, and the links between conspiracy theories and religious belief.