Campbell did not anticipate that fundamentalist Christian elements, riding on the back of conspiracy theories and ongoing secularization, would appear in his cultic milieu and cohabitate with esotericism and New Age spirituality. Scholars h…———. New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998.
Hirstein, William. Brain Fiction: Self-Deception and the Riddle of Confabulation. Cambridge, MA: MIT …[^16]: Colin Campbell, “The Cult, the Cultic Milieu and Secularization,” in A Sociological Yearbook of Religion in Britain 5 (1972): 119–36. Reprinted in Jeffrey Kaplan and Heléne Lööw eds., The Cultic Milieu: Oppositional Subcultures in an…
Heléne Lööw
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Lööw appears primarily as an editor of a key anthology on cultic milieus and oppositional subcultures in the context of globalization, working with scholar Jeffrey Kaplan to frame how fringe religious and conspiratorial movements operate across networked societies. The citation suggests her work is being mobilized to understand how disparate ideological elements—fundamentalist Christianity, esotericism, New Age spirituality, and conspiracy thinking—coexist and circulate within contemporary subcultures, a concern central to mapping AI-era information ecologies and radicalization pathways.
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