Sightings Articles
The Power of Belief in Conspiracy Theories
People who subscribe to QAnon maintain that Donald Trump remains the “true” president... why would anyone believe this?...
December 17, 2021
Conspiracy Theories and Human Psychology
The unsettlingly normal cognitive roots of outlandish explanations...
September 9, 2021
On Zealous and Unrepentant Times
A Call to Self-Reflection amidst a Dangerous Devotion...
September 28, 2020
Playing the Ostrich; or, How Not to Think about QAnon
American conspiracy theories and the task of the scholar of religion...
May 18, 2020
"We Don't Have Enough Proof": Pizzagate as Epistemological Panic
A man with a rifle enters a pizza place, not for the purposes of mass murder or terrorism but on a quest for epistemological certainty. Twenty-eight-year-old Edgar Maddison Welch had heard a theory, and he wanted to know if it was true. He had encoun...