Open AccessRecombinant Revelations: 2012 in Millenarian and New Age Cyber-Apocalypticism
Author(s) -
László Attila Hubbes
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
traditiones - inštitut za slovensko narodopisje, ljubljana/traditiones
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.298
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1855-6396
pISSN - 0352-0447
DOI - 10.3986/traditio2021500304
Subject(s) - apocalypticism , millenarianism , spirituality , context (archaeology) , consciousness , globe , religious experience , history , religious studies , philosophy , theology , politics , psychology , political science , archaeology , epistemology , law , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , judaism , neuroscience
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.