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Hello everyone.

Welcome to Conspiratoriality where we investigate the

intersection of conspiracy theories and spiritual influence to uncover

cults, pseudoscience, and authoritarian extremism. I'm Matthew Remsky.

This is a Patreon bonus episode that follows up on my brief

episode discussion with Bradley O'Nishi on his notion of secular person of faith.

Bradley teaches religious studies at the University of San Francisco and he's the co-host

of Straight White American Jesus and the author of preparing for war, the extremist

history of white Christian nationalism. We hosted Brad for episode 167 to look at his book and his journey out of evangelicalism

and in his return visit we began discussing what can at times feel unsatisfying about some aspects of the modern secular project.

We talked about the long shadow of Max Weber, declaring the demagicking of the modern world and how religious

literalism has responded.

We discussed Jeffrey Kowski's notion of disenchantment with disenchantment

and the deep materialism of Thomas Altizer who proposed the idea of Christian atheism, which I just didn't know was a thing.

Now today we continue our conversation with me telling Brad a couple of stories about religious

disenchantments that paradoxically have led to feelings of deep connectedness.

Now, I said a little bit last time about how in the midst of reporting on terrible news about spiritual charlatans growing their influence through audience capture into political extremism.

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