Recombinant Revelations: 2012 in Millenarian and New Age Cyber-Apocalypticism
László Attila Hubbes
Traditiones January 5, 2022 DOI: 10.3986/traditio2021500304 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Keywords | Apocalypticism Millenarianism Spirituality Context archaeology Consciousness Globe Religious experience Religious studies Theology Politics Epistemology Law |
| Key points | Argues that apocalyptic spirituality is sustained by a combination of religious revival, New Age trends, millennial anxieties, conspiracy mentality, and crisis consciousness, all intensified by visual media, and identifies two types of digital spiritual environments: Christian millennialist and New Age hyper-eclectic. |
Abstract
This article investigates apocalyptic spirituality in the contemporary globalized context of re-emerging religiousness and New Age spirituality, in which millennial calendrical anxieties, a conspiracy mentality, and crisis consciousness are bolstered up by the visual flood of old and new electronic media. Two types of religious or spiritual digital environments are presented through their characteristic imagery: the rather traditional environment of Christian millennialism and the hyper-eclectic atmosphere of New Age networks.