Whispers in the Echo Chamber Derek Cheung Bubonic Plague was an ongoing

Bubonic Plague was an ongoing epidemic that sickened and killed many in Europe and beyond beginning in the mid-fourteenth century and continuing in the days of Martin Luther's sixteenth-century Germany

Although the impact of a disaster is often measured in terms of casualties

Charts the development of progressive Christianity's engagement with modern science

" -Dennis Van Roekel

and dilemmas of the dissidents who

Whispers in the Echo Chamber Derek Cheung Bubonic Plague was an ongoingWhispers in the Echo Chamber: Folklore and the Role of Conspiracy Theory in Contemporary Society makes the case that conspiracy theories are fundamentally a folklore genre, akin to and often involving other belief narratives like rumor and legend. The editors and contributors show that studying conspiracy theories using the tools of folkloristics is a fruitful and necessary analytical exercise. The volume's three parts lay out folkloristic approaches