What is it about?
This article shows how spiritual communities joined protests against COVID-19 rules. It describes conspirituality, a mix of spirituality and conspiracy beliefs, and explains how digital networks spread these views. The author argues that fear, uncertainty, and declining trust encouraged political activism, splitting communities between radical resistance and more compassionate, health to responses.
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Why is it important?
Addressing how religious communities become more activist, more likely to protest, and more likely to become political, in times of fake news, and the rise of conspiracy theories, this articles highlight lines of flight account for this transformation.
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This article was produced in the context of the European Society for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies meeting in Bonn on Sacred Protest. It emerged at the end of the Corona period, when there was a big shift in new spirituality milieus towards conspiratorial thinking, but also more demonstrations and protest over Covid-measures.
dr Daan F. Oostveen
Universiteit voor Humanistiek
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This page is a summary of: Transreligious Communities, Conspirituality and Protest, January 2026, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004745735_008.
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