1. Why does Barkun think the study of the convergence of conspiracy

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1 1 A Culture f Cnspiracy: Apcalyptic Visins in Cntemprary America By Michael Barkun Published in hardcver n Nvember 7, 2003, by the University f Califrnia Press Published in paperback n May 4, 2006, by the University f Califrnia Press Preface 1. Why des Barkun think the study f the cnvergence f cnspiracy theries with UFO beliefs is wrth studying? Chapter 1: The Nature f Cnspiracy Belief 1. Why d millennialists gravitate tward cnspiracism? 2. What are the three principles related t cnspiracy theries emphasis n design in the universe? 3. Explain Barkun s matrix f grup/activities and secret/nn-secret. 4. What are the three types f cnspiracy theries and hw are they related t each ther? 5. Discuss the empirical sundness f cnspiracy theries.

2 2 6. Define and cmpare religius, secular, and imprvisatinal millennialism. 7. What has been the impact f the Internet n cnspiracy theries in general sciety? Terms definitin and significance Millennialism Manichaean Cnspiracy (as defined by Barkun) Prtcls f the Elders f Zin Urban legend rumr Chapter 2: Millennialism, Cnspiracy, and Stigmatized Knwledge 1. Hw can the rise f imprvisinal millennialism be explained? 2. Describe the cncept f rejected knwledge. 3. Describe the cncept f cultic milieu. 4. Describe the cncept f stigmatized knwledge and its five varieties. 5. What is the fact/fictin reversal? Define and prvide examples. 6. What is the relatinship between stigmatized knwledge and ppular culture? Terms definitin and significance Fundamentalisms New Age Briclage

3 3 Edward Gerge Bulwer-Lyttn Cnsensus reality Chapter 3: New Wrld Order Cnspiracies I: The New Wrld Order and the Illuminati 1. What are the elements that cnstitute the general New Wrld Order Cnspiracy theries? What were the tw streams f ideas that cntributed t the develpment f these theries? 2. Describe the tw basic strategies fr identifying the Antichrist. 3. Describe the rise f Antichrist theries in twentieth century America. 4. Describe the evlutin f cnspiracy theries invlving the Illuminati in nineteenth and twentieth century America. 5. Describe the cntributins f Miltn William Cper t the develpment f cnspiracy theries. 6. What was the impact f the Cld War and the end f the Cld War n cnspiracy theries? Terms definitin and significance Jhn Nelsn Darby ( ) Premillennialism Pstmillennialism Dispensatins Tribulatins Rapture Gerald Winrd Bavarian Illuminati Adam Weishaupt

4 4 Nesta Webster Lady Queensbrugh r Edith Starr Miller Jhn Birch Sciety Rbert Welch Pat Rbertsn Jhn Tbb Miltn William Cper Chapter 4: New Wrld Order Cnspiracies II: A Wrld f Black Helicpters 1. Accrding t varius New Wrld Order cnspiracies, wh and what grups were behind these cnspiracies? 2. What is the mythlgy f black helicpters, cncentratin camps, and mind cntrl in the New Wrld Cnspiracies? Terms definitin and significance Cuncil n Freign Relatins Bilderberger Grup Trilateral Cmmissin Jim Keith William Pabst MK-ULTRA Prject Mnarch

5 5 Chapter 5: UFO Cnspiracy Theries, Frm 1947 t present, what has been the situatin f the UFO subculture in American sciety cncerning its size and the state f its beliefs? 2. What was the advantage fr New Wrld Order beliefs becming incrprated with UFO beliefs? 3. Describe the tw phases f the develpment f UFO cmspiracism. 4. What was the Cper Narrative? Terms definitin and significance Alternative 3 Ernst Zundel MJ-12 papers Jhn Lear Chapter 6: UFOs Meet the New Wrld Order: Jim Keith and David Icke 1. What was Jim Keith s backgrund and his cntributin t UFO cnspiracism? 2. What was David Icke s backgrund and his cntributin t UFO cnspiracism? 3. What is the relatinship between Keith and Icke n the ne hand and the Radical Right n the ther hand? Terms definitin and significance Brtherhd Glbal Elite

6 6 Reptilian Cnspiracy Chapter 7: Armageddn Belw 1. Describe the Dulce Legend and its place in UFO cnspiracies. 2. Trace the histry f inner-earth beliefs. 3. What is the Shaver Mystery? 4. Hw did pulp fictin cntribute t the Serpent Race belief? 5. What is the Reptilian Cnspiracy? 6. Hw d adherents f the Serpent Race belief link it t the Bible? Terms definitin and significance Inner-earth mtifs Paul Bennewitz Madame Helena Petrvna Blavatsky Guy Ballard Munt Shasta Maurice Dreal Agharti Shambhala Serpent Race Rbert E. Hward

7 7 Chapter 8: UFOs and the Search fr Scapegats I: Anti-Cathlicism and Anti-Masnry 1. Describe the mvement f Nativism in America and trace its histry thrugh the nineteenth int the twentieth century. What grups were targets f Nativism s hatred and why? 2. What is the part played by anti-cathlicism in mdern UFO cnspiracy theries? 3. What is the part played by anti-masnic beliefs in mdern UFO cnspiracy theries? Chapter 9: UFOs and the Search fr Scapegats II: Anti-Semitism amng the Aliens 1. What are the three basic ways Jews are prtrayed in UFO cnspiracy theries? 2. What rle d Nazis play in UFO cnspiracies? 3. Hw have the Prtcls f the Elders f Zin been variusly adapted fr use in UFO cnspiracy theries? 4. What type f cnspiracy theries are advcated by the Phenix Publicatins? 5. Describe the nature f cntactee material and hw it relates t UFO lre. Hw is it different frm abductee accunts? 6. What influence did William Dudley Pelley exert n anti-semiticism in the UFO cnspiracy theries? 7. What des Barkun mean when he refers t the laissez-faire character f stigmatized knwledge and hw it impacts the develpment UFO cnspiracy theries? Terms definitin and significance William Dudley Pelley

8 8 Khazars Hatn Gerge Adamski Gerge Hunt Williamsn Chapter 10: September 11: the Aftermath 1. The September 11 attacks were a traumatic event. What was the reactin f the Millenarians, the Estericists, the UFO cmmunity, the cnspiracists, and David Ickes? 2. Hw did Miltn William Cper react t September 11? What were the circumstances f his death, and hw did the cnspiracist cmmunity react t his death? 3. Hw des the war in Afghanistan fit int the pssible future speculatins abut cnspiracies? 4. What was the impact f September 11 n the existing cnspiracy culture? Cnclusin 1. Discuss the different types f UFO-related millennialisms UFOs as a sign f the end-time, aliens and the Christian millennium, alternative millenniums, and fraudulent millenniums. 2. Discuss the relatin f the cncepts f millennium and apcalypse and hw they affect views f the end-time. 3. UFO cnspiracy theries can have influence in greater sciety due t the phenmenn f repsitining, mainstreaming, and bridging f their ideas. What d these terms mean and hw d they wrk t spread the ideas f UFO cnspiracists? 4. Hw des Barkun explain the fact that diverse cnspiracy theries have an essential unity with each ther?

9 9 5. What des Barkun suggest are ptential prblems fr the general sciety psed by the increasing permeability f the bundary between mainstream knwledge and stigmatized knwledge? What are the real and ptential scial divisins created by cnspiracy theries? This Planet Cli Study Guide lives nline at: 10 January 2013