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  • 17 - The Conspiracy Frame: Coherence through Self-Supporting Beliefs

  • from Part IV - Society
  • Thomas T. Hills, University of Warwick
  • Book:
    Behavioral Network Science
    Published online:
    08 November 2024
    Print publication:
    19 December 2024, pp 278-295

  • Summary

    Conspiracy theories explain anomalous events as the outcome of secret plots by small groups of people with malevolent aims. Is every conspiracy unique, or do they all share a common thread? That is, might conspiracy explanations stem from a higher-order belief that binds together a wide variety of overtly independent phenomena under a common umbrella? We can call this belief the conspiracy frame. Network science allows us to examine this frame at two different levels: by examining the structural coherence of individual conspiracies and by examining the higher-level interconnectivity of the conspiracy beliefs as a whole.

  • Recruitment to Elective Cults: Network Structure and Ecology

  • John S. Kloppenborg
  • Journal:
    New Testament Studies / Volume 66 / Issue 3 / July 2020
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 June 2020, pp. 323-350
    Print publication:
    July 2020

  • During the first and second centuries of the Common Era the Christ cult spread from rural Palestine to the large cities of the Empire. This article draws insights from social network theory and from epidemiology, arguing that the Christ cult was not a simple contagion, spread by simple contact, but a ‘complex contagion’ that required persuasion, especially because adherence to the Christ cult entailed potential social costs and demanded high signalling costs.

  • Practices of Confession, Intercession, and Forgiveness in 1 John 1.9; 5.16

  • Rikard Roitto
  • Journal:
    New Testament Studies / Volume 58 / Issue 2 / April 2012
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    07 March 2012, pp. 235-253
    Print publication:
    April 2012

  • 1 John 1.9 and 5.16 reflect practices of public confession of sins, intercession, and mediation of God's forgiveness. Divine forgiveness and belonging to the community were integrated in the Johannine community to the extent that one equalled the other. Therefore, these practices had important group-dynamic functions for the Johannine community. First, public confession functioned as a costly signal that deterred less committed group members but was meaningful to committed group members. Second, the practice of intercession induced role taking, allowing the offended party both to empathize with the offender and to restore his or her dignity and honour.