@article{Celestini_Warne_2022, place={Montreal, QC, Canada}, title={From the Cave of Adullam a King Shall Rise: Covid, Conspiracy Theories, Christian Nationalism, and Populism in Canada}, volume={3}, url={https://creor-ejournal.library.mcgill.ca/article/view/75}, DOI={10.26443/jcreor.v3i2.75}, abstractNote={<p>Christian nationalism, populism, and conspiracy theories interconnected online during the COVID-19 pandemic, and eventually erupted in offline acts of protest against governments, with cabals attempting to create a New World Order and against the “tyrannical” COVID-19 mandates. In this paper we focus on the role of the Calgary-based Pastor Artur Pawlowski in building a religio-political social movement both in Canada and America, founded upon tropes of Christian persecution, conspiracy theories, Christian nationalism, and populism. This transnational online movement, in which national borders are blurred, helped to fuel the occupation of Canada’s capital city in December 2021, and continues to spur a Christian movement both in America and Canada as the pandemic wanes.</p>}, number={2}, journal={Journal of the Council for Research on Religion}, author={Celestini, Carmen and Warne, Randi R.}, year={2022}, month={Aug.}, pages={40–58} }