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A Culture of Conspiracy
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comparative studies in religion and society
Mark Juergensmeyer, editor
1. Redemptive Encounters: Three Modern Styles in the Hindu Tradition,
by Lawrence A. Babb
2. Saints and Virtues, edited by John Stratton Hawley
3. Utopias in Conflict: Religion and Nationalism in Modern India,
by Ainslee T. Embree
4. Mama Lola: A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn, by Karen McCarthy Brown
5. The New Cold War? Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State,
by Mark Juergensmeyer
6. Pious Passion: The Emergence of Modern Fundamentalism in the United
States and Iran, by Martin Riesebrodt, translated by Don Reneau
7. Devi: Goddess of India, edited by John Stratton Hawley and
Donna Marie Wulff
8. Absent Lord: Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual Culture,
by Lawrence A. Babb
9. The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World
Disorder, by Bassam Tibi
10. Leveling Crowds: Ethno-Nationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in
South Asia, by Stanley J. Tambiah
11. The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia, by Michael A. Sells
12. China’s Catholics: Tragedy and Hope in an Emerging Civil Society,
by Richard Madsen
13. Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence,
by Mark Juergensmeyer
14. Imagining Karma: Ethical Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and
Greek Rebirth, by Gananath Obeyesekere
15. A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America,
by Michael Barkun
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A Culture of Conspiracy
Apocalyptic Visions
in Contemporary America
Michael Barkun
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Berkeley / Los Angeles / London
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Portions of chapter 7 first appeared as Michael Barkun, “Myths of the
Underworld in Contempo