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19 SEP 2026 · Links For The Occult Rejects
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18 SEP 2026 · Thank you and enjoy the episode!
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Krautheimer, Richard. Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture. 4th ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.
Essential. This is the backbone source for early Christian basilicas, liturgical space, urban context, and the development of Christian architecture after Constantine. Krautheimer is especially useful for not treating churches as isolated floor plans, but as part of city, ritual, bishop, patronage, and memory.
Krautheimer, Richard. Rome: Profile of a City, 312–1308. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980.
Very useful for Rome as a layered city: imperial remains, Christian churches, papal authority, public space, and the transformation of Roman urban memory.
Krautheimer, Richard, Wolfgang Frankl, and Spencer Corbett. Corpus Basilicarum Christianarum Romae: The Early Christian Basilicas of Rome. 5 vols. Vatican City: Pontificio Istituto di Archeologia Cristiana, 1937–1977.
Heavy academic reference work. Best for the Lateran, Old Saint Peter’s, early Roman churches, plans, architectural evidence, and dating.
Mathews, Thomas F. The Early Churches of Constantinople: Architecture and Liturgy. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1971.
More focused on Constantinople, but excellent for connecting architecture and liturgical movement.
White, L. Michael. Building God’s House in the Roman World: Architectural Adaptation among Pagans, Jews, and Christians. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.
Great for the transition from house settings and adapted spaces into larger public Christian architecture.
Brandenburg, Hugo. Ancient Churches of Rome from the Fourth to the Seventh Century: The Dawn of Christian Architecture in the West. Turnhout: Brepols, 2005.
Very useful for Rome, the Lateran, Santa Maria Maggiore, Santa Sabina, and the formation of Christian public architecture.
Snyder, Graydon F. Ante Pacem: Archaeological Evidence of Church Life Before Constantine. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2003.
Best for the “before Constantine” contrast: house churches, burial spaces, symbols, and pre-public Christian material culture.
Elsner, Jaś. Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph: The Art of the Roman Empire AD 100–450. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Excellent for the transformation from Roman imperial art and space into Christian visual culture and triumphal imagery. Elsner’s work is especially useful for your “empire becomes the bones of the church” angle.
Constantine, Legal Shift, and Imperial Patronage
Eusebius. Life of Constantine. Translated by Averil Cameron and Stuart G. Hall. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.
Primary source. Use carefully because it is highly pro-Constantine and partly panegyric, but it is essential for Constantine’s Christian image, patronage, and sacred building projects. Eusebius is one of the key ancient witnesses for Constantine’s role in Christian imperial memory.
Eusebius. Ecclesiastical History. Translated by Kirsopp Lake. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1926–1932.
Useful background for the pre-Constantinian church, persecution memory, martyr tradition, and Christian self-understanding before public imperial patronage.
Barnes, Timothy D. Constantine and Eusebius. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981.
Major scholarly source on Constantine, Eusebius, politics, Christian patronage, and imperial ideology.
Drake, H. A. Constantine and the Bishops: The Politics of Intolerance. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Excellent for the political complexity of Constantine’s relationship with bishops and Christian institutions.
Lenski, Noel, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Good edited volume for Constantine’s world: religion, politics, empire, law, cities, and Christianization.
Odahl, Charles Matson. Constantine and the Christian Empire. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 2010.
Useful general scholarly overview, especially for readers/listeners who need the historical framework.
MacMullen, Ramsay. Christianizing the Roman Empire: A.D. 100–400. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.
Classic work on Christianization as a social and political process.
Brown, Peter. The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, A.D. 200–1000. 3rd ed. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
Excellent big-picture framing. Helps avoid the cartoon version where Constantine instantly creates medieval Christianity.
Basilicas, Liturgy, Space, and the Body
Yasin, Ann Marie. Saints and Church Spaces in the Late Antique Mediterranean: Architecture, Cult, and Community. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Very strong for how churches organized community, memory, saints, ritual space, and sacred presence.
Yasin, Ann Marie. “Sacred Installations: The Material Conditions of Liturgy in Late Antique Churches.” In Objects in Context, Objects in Use, edited by Luke Lavan, Ellen Swift, and Toon Putzeys. Leiden: Brill, 2007.
Useful for altars, liturgical furnishing, and how sacred space is made materially.
Bowes, Kim. Private Worship, Public Values, and Religious Change in Late Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Good for the public/private transition, elite patronage, domestic religion, and late antique religious change.
Markus, R. A. The End of Ancient Christianity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Important for the shift from ancient Christian worlds into more structured post-Constantinian Christianity.
Brown, Peter. The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
This will become even more important for your next episode on martyrs, relics, tombs, bones, and pilgrimage.
MacCormack, Sabine. Art and Ceremony in Late Antiquity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.
Great for public ceremony, imperial ritual, Christian adaptation, and how power becomes theatrical and architectural.
Lateran, Old Saint Peter’s, and Holy Sepulchre
Davis, Raymond. The Book of Pontiffs: The Ancient Biographies of the First Ninety Roman Bishops to AD 715. Rev. ed. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2010.
Translation of the Liber Pontificalis. Useful for the Lateran, papal memory, church foundations, donations, and claims about Constantine.
Mango, Cyril. The Art of the Byzantine Empire, 312–1453: Sources and Documents. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986.
Excellent sourcebook for texts on Christian art, architecture, and sacred building.
Ward-Perkins, J. B. “The Shrine of St. Peter’s and Its Twelve Spiral Columns.” Journal of Roman Studies 42, no. 1–2 (1952): 21–33.
Very useful for Old Saint Peter’s, reused columns, Solomonic column traditions, and apostolic memory. The tradition of reused marble columns at Old Saint Peter’s directly supports your spolia-and-memory section.
Krautheimer, Richard. “Mensa-Coemeterium-Martyrium.” Cahiers Archéologiques 11 (1960): 15–40.
Important for tomb, altar, martyr memory, and architectural development.
Wilken, Robert Louis. The Land Called Holy: Palestine in Christian History and Thought. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
Useful for Jerusalem, holy geography, sacred memory, and the Holy Sepulchre.
Taylor, Joan E. Christians and the Holy Places: The Myth of Jewish-Christian Origins. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.
Strong source for holy places, memory, archaeology, and early Christian sacred geography.
Biddle, Martin. The Tomb of Christ. Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1999.
Useful for Holy Sepulchre archaeology and the architectural framing of crucifixion, burial, and resurrection.
Spolia, Reused Stone, and Roman Material Inheritance
Kinney, Dale. “Spolia. Damnatio and Renovatio Memoriae.” Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 42 (1997): 117–148.
One of the key scholarly pieces for spolia, memory, reuse, and interpretation.
Kinney, Dale. “Rape or Restitution of the Past? Interpreting Spolia.” In The Art of Interpreting, edited by Susan C. Scott, 52–67. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.
Great for your nuance: spolia is not always theft, not always theology, not always conquest. It can be practical, symbolic, aesthetic, political, or all of those at once.
Brilliant, Richard, and Dale Kinney, eds. Reuse Value: Spolia and Appropriation in Art and Architecture from Constantine to Sherrie Levine. Farnham: Ashgate, 2011.
Excellent broader collection on reuse, appropriation, memory, and architectural meaning.
Hansen, Maria Fabricius. The Eloquence of Appropriation: Prolegomena to an Understanding of Spolia in Early Christian Rome. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2003.
Very relevant to your point that reused materials could create a meaningful Christian aesthetic, not just a cheap construction solution.
Brenk, Beat. “Spolia from Constantine to Charlemagne: Aesthetics versus Ideology.” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 41 (1987): 103–109.
Very useful for the practical-versus-symbolic debate.
Greenhalgh, Michael. The Survival of Roman Antiquities in the Middle Ages. London: Duckworth, 1989.
Good for how Roman materials, statues, columns, and monuments survive, are reused, or are reinterpreted.
Pensabene, Patrizio Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.
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16 SEP 2026 · Links For The Occult Rejects
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14 SEP 2026 · Links For The Occult Rejects
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Episode One: Before the Brain Scan
Modern Sexual Response and Neuroscientific Framing
Basson, Rosemary. “Human Sex-Response Cycles.” Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy 27, no. 1 (2001): 33–43.
Georgiadis, Janniko R. “Doing It… Wild? On the Role of the Cerebral Cortex in Human Sexual Activity.” Socioaffective Neuroscience & Psychology 2 (2012): 17337.
Georgiadis, Janniko R., and A. A. T. Simone Reinders. “Men versus Women on Sexual Brain Function: Prominent Differences during Tactile Genital Stimulation, but Not during Orgasm.” Human Brain Mapping 30, no. 10 (2009): 3089–3101.
Kaplan, Helen Singer. The New Sex Therapy: Active Treatment of Sexual Dysfunctions. New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1974.
Masters, William H., and Virginia E. Johnson. Human Sexual Response. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1966.
Stoléru, Serge, Virginie Fonteille, Christelle Cornélis, Christian Joyal, and Virginie Moulier. “Functional Neuroimaging Studies of Sexual Arousal and Orgasm in Healthy Men and Women: A Review and Meta-Analysis.” Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 36, no. 6 (2012): 1481–1509.
Wise, Nan J., Eleni Frangos, and Barry R. Komisaruk. “Brain Activity Unique to Orgasm in Women: An fMRI Analysis.” Journal of Sexual Medicine 14, no. 11 (2017): 1380–1391.
Ancient Egyptian Primary Sources and Textual Collections
Allen, James P., trans. The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005.
Faulkner, Raymond O., trans. The Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts. 3 vols. Warminster, UK: Aris & Phillips, 1973–1978.
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Ancient Egyptian Religion, Sexuality, and Medicine
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Assmann, Jan. The Search for God in Ancient Egypt. Translated by David Lorton. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001.
Graves-Brown, Carolyn. Dancing for Hathor: Women in Ancient Egypt. London: Continuum, 2010.
Hornung, Erik. Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many. Translated by John Baines. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982.
Manniche, Lise. Sexual Life in Ancient Egypt. London: KPI, 1987.
Matić, Uroš. “Sexuality in Ancient Egypt: Pleasures, Desires, Norms, and Representations.” In The Cambridge World History of Sexualities, vol. 2, edited by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks and Mathew Kuefler, 22–42. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
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Pinch, Geraldine. Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
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Robins, Gay. Women in Ancient Egypt. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Smith, Mark. Following Osiris: Perspectives on the Osirian Afterlife from Four Millennia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Stevens, Anna. “The Material Evidence for Domestic Religion at Amarna and Preliminary Remarks on Its Interpretation.” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 89 (2003): 143–168.
Mesopotamian Primary Sources and Translated Literature
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Foster, Benjamin R. Before the Muses: An Anthology of Akkadian Literature. 3rd ed. Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 2005.
Jacobsen, Thorkild. The Harps That Once…: Sumerian Poetry in Translation. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1987.
Kramer, Samuel Noah. The Sacred Marriage Rite: Aspects of Faith, Myth, and Ritual in Ancient Sumer. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1969.
Wolkstein, Diane, and Samuel Noah Kramer. Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth—Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer. New York: Harper & Row, 1983.
Mesopotamian Sexuality, Sacred Marriage, and Gender
Assante, Julia. “The Kar.kid/Ḫarimtu: Prostitute or Single Woman? A Reconsideration of the Evidence.” Ugarit-Forschungen 30 (1998): 5–96.
Biggs, Robert D. ŠÀ.ZI.GA: Ancient Mesopotamian Potency Incantations. Texts from Cuneiform Sources 2. Locust Valley, NY: J. J. Augustin, 1967.
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Budin, Stephanie Lynn. The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Leick, Gwendolyn. Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature. London: Routledge, 1994.
Lapinkivi, Pirjo. The Sumerian Sacred Marriage in the Light of Comparative Evidence. State Archives of Assyria Studies 15. Helsinki: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2004.
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Peled, Ilan. Masculinities and Third Gender: The Origins and Nature of an Institutionalized Gender Otherness in the Ancient Near East. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2016.
Parpola, Simo, and Robert M. Whiting, eds. Sex and Gender in the Ancient Near East. Helsinki: Neo-Assyrian Text Corpus Project, 2002.
Stol, Marten. Women in the Ancient Near East. Translated by Helen Richardson and Mervyn Richardson. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016.
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Wiggermann, Frans A. M. “Sexualität: In Mesopotamien.” In Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie, vol. 12, edited by Michael P. Streck and others, 410–426. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2010.
Mesopotamian Medicine, Reproduction, and the Body
Böck, Barbara. The Healing Goddess Gula: Towards an Understanding of Ancient Babylonian Medicine. Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 67. Leiden: Brill, 2014.
Geller, Markham J. Ancient Babylonian Medicine: Theory and Practice. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Horstmanshoff, H. F. J., Marten Stol, and Cornelis Tilburg, eds. Magic and Rationality in Ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman Medicine. Studies in Ancient Medicine 27. Leiden: Brill, 2004.
Scurlock, JoAnn, and Burton R. Andersen. Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian Medicine: Ancient Sources, Translations, and Modern Medical Analyses. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005.
Steinert, Ulrike. “Fluids, Rivers, and Vessels: Metaphors and Body Concepts in Mesopotamian Gynaecological Texts.” Le Journal des Médecines Cunéiformes 22 (2013): 1–23.
Steinert, Ulrike. “Concepts of the Female Body in Mesopotamian Gynecological Texts.” In The Comparable Body: Analogy and Metaphor in Ancient Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Greco-Roman Medicine, edited by John Z. Wee, 275–357. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
Stol, Marten. Birth in Babylonia and the Bible: Its Mediterranean Setting. Cuneiform Monographs 14. Groningen: Styx Publications, 2000.
Broader Comparative and Methodological Studies
Budin, Stephanie Lynn. “Phallic Fertility in the Ancient Near East and Egypt.” In Reproduction: Antiquity to the Present Day, edited by Nick Hopwood, Rebecca Flemming, and Lauren Kassell, 31–48. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Faraone, Christopher A., and Laura K. McClure, eds. Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.
King, Helen. Hippocrates’ Woman: Reading the Female Body in Ancient Greece. London: Routledge, 1998.
Stol, Marten. “Women in Mesopotamia.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 38, no. 2 (1995): 123–144.
Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E., and Mathew Kuefler, eds. The Cambridge World History of Sexualities. Vol. 2, Systems of Thought and Belief. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.
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13 SEP 2026 · Links For The Occult Rejects
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The Cunning Farmer
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Primary textsHebrew Bible / Old Testament:
- Genesis 6:1–4
- Leviticus 16
- Deuteronomy 32:17
- Psalm 91
- Psalm 106:37
- Isaiah 34:14–15
- Job 1–2
- Zechariah 3
Second Temple Jewish texts:
- Tobit
- 1 Enoch, especially the Book of the Watchers
- Jubilees
- Dead Sea Scrolls / Qumran texts, especially 1QS 3–4 and the War Scroll
New Testament texts:
- Mark 1
- Mark 5
- Matthew 8:29
- Matthew 12
- Luke 8
- Luke 11
- 1 Corinthians 10:20
- 2 Corinthians 4:4
- Colossians 2:15
- Ephesians 6:12
Patristic / late antique texts:
- Justin Martyr, First Apology
- Athenagoras, Plea for the Christians
- Origen
- Augustine
- Evagrius Ponticus
- Testament of Solomon
- Aramaic incantation bowls
Selected scholarship
- Annette Yoshiko Reed, “When Did Daimones Become Demons? Revisiting Septuagintal Data for Ancient Jewish Demonology,” Harvard Theological Review 116.3 (2023).
- Eibert J. C. Tigchelaar, “Evil Spirits in the Dead Sea Scrolls: A Brief Survey and Some Perspectives.”
- John J. Collins, “The Two Spirits and the Origin of Evil,” in Understanding Texts in Early Judaism (2022).
- James C. VanderKam, “Mastema in the Qumran Literature and the Book of Jubilees.”
- Graham H. Twelftree, In the Name of Jesus: Exorcism among Early Christians (Baker Academic, 2007).
- Ky Heinze, Origen on Demonic Executioners and the Problem of Evil (Cambridge University Press).
- Andrew Crislip, “The Sin of Sloth or the Illness of the Demons? The Demon of Acedia in Early Christian Monasticism,” Harvard Theological Review 98.2 (2005).
- Robin M. Jensen, From Idols to Icons: The Emergence of Christian Devotional Images in Late Antiquity (University of California Press, 2022).
- Gary B. Ferngren, Medicine and Health Care in Early Christianity (Johns Hopkins University Press).
Useful bridge / reference sources
- Bible Odyssey, especially the entries on Demons and Unclean Spirits, Nephilim, Satan, and Exorcism in the Gospels.
- Britannica, especially the entries on Tobit, Asmodeus, First Book of Enoch, Satan, the devil, and Paul. Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.
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9 SEP 2026 · Links For The Occult Rejects
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7 SEP 2026 · Bibliography
**Advertising, Branding, and Consumer Identity**
Aaker, *Managing Brand Equity* (1991); Bernays, *Biography of an Idea* (1965); Bernays, *Propaganda* (1928); Ewen, *Captains of Consciousness* (1976); Keller, *Strategic Brand Management* (1998); McCracken, “Culture and Consumption,” *JCR* 13 (1986): 71–84; Schudson, *Advertising, the Uneasy Persuasion* (1984); Tye, *The Father of Spin* (1998); Zajonc, “Attitudinal Effects of Mere Exposure,” *JPSP* 9 (1968): 1–27.
**Propaganda, Language, and Ideology**
Ellul, *Propaganda* (1965); Klemperer, *The Language of the Third Reich* (2000); Lasswell, *Propaganda Technique in the World War* (1927); Lifton, *Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism* (1989; orig. 1961); Stanley, *How Propaganda Works* (2015).
**Framing, Agenda Setting, and Public Attention**
Entman, “Framing,” *Journal of Communication* 43 (1993): 51–58; Iyengar, *Is Anyone Responsible?* (1991); Lippmann, *Public Opinion* (1922); McCombs, *Setting the Agenda* (2014); McCombs and Shaw, “The Agenda-Setting Function of Mass Media,” *POQ* 36 (1972): 176–87; Noelle-Neumann, *The Spiral of Silence* (1993).
**Dehumanization and Moral Disengagement**
Bandura, “Moral Disengagement in the Perpetration of Inhumanities,” *PSPR* 3 (1999): 193–209; Haslam, “Dehumanization,” *PSPR* 10 (2006): 252–64; Haslam and Loughnan, “Dehumanization and Infrahumanization,” *ARP* 65 (2014): 399–423; Kelman, “Violence Without Moral Restraint,” *JSI* 29 (1973): 25–61.
**Repetition, Misinformation, and Online Diffusion**
Bail, *Breaking the Social Media Prism* (2021); Berger and Milkman, “What Makes Online Content Viral?” *JMR* 49 (2012): 192–205; Brady et al., “Emotion Shapes the Diffusion of Moralized Content,” *PNAS* 114 (2017): 7313–18; Pennycook et al., “Prior Exposure Increases Perceived Accuracy of Fake News,” *JEP:G* 147 (2018): 1865–80; Pennycook et al., “Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation,” *Psychological Science* 31 (2020): 770–80; Vosoughi, Roy, and Aral, “The Spread of True and False News Online,” *Science* 359 (2018): 1146–51.
**Availability, Consensus, and Social Silence**
Kuran and Sunstein, “Availability Cascades and Risk Regulation,” *Stanford Law Review* 51 (1999): 683–768; Prentice and Miller, “Pluralistic Ignorance and Alcohol Use on Campus,” *JPSP* 64 (1993): 243–56; Sunstein, *On Rumors* (2009).
**Liturgy, Civil Religion, and Collective Ritual**
Bell, *Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice* (1992); Bellah, “Civil Religion in America,” *Daedalus* 96 (1967): 1–21; Durkheim, *The Elementary Forms of Religious Life* (1995; orig. 1912); Hobson et al., “The Psychology of Rituals,” *PSPR* 22 (2018): 260–84; Rappaport, *Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity* (1999); Whitehouse, *Modes of Religiosity* (2004); Xygalatas, *Ritual* (2022).
**Crowd Psychology, Synchrony, and Collective Identity**
Canetti, *Crowds and Power* (1962); Drury, “Social Identity Processes in Mass Emergency Behaviour,” *ERSP* 29 (2018): 38–81; Drury and Reicher, “Collective Action and Psychological Change,” *BJSP* 39 (2000): 579–604; Le Bon, *The Crowd* (1896); McNeill, *Keeping Together in Time* (1995); Reicher, “The St. Pauls’ Riot,” *EJSP* 14 (1984): 1–21; Reicher, Spears, and Postmes, “A Social Identity Model of Deindividuation,” *ERSP* 6 (1995): 161–98; Stott and Reicher, “How Conflict Escalates,” *Sociology* 32 (1998): 353–77; Tajfel and Turner, “An Integrative Theory of Intergroup Conflict” (1979); Turner et al., *Rediscovering the Social Group* (1987); Vickhoff et al., “Music Structure Determines Heart Rate Variability,” *Frontiers in Psychology* 4 (2013): 334; Wiltermuth and Heath, “Synchrony and Cooperation,” *Psychological Science* 20 (2009): 1–5.
**Prebunking, Inoculation, and Resistance**
Compton, “Inoculation Theory” (2013); Linegar et al., “Prebunking Election Rumors” (preprint, 2024); McGuire, “Inducing Resistance to Persuasion,” *Advances in Experimental Social Psychology* 1 (1964): 191–229; Roozenbeek et al., “Psychological Inoculation Improves Resilience Against Misinformation,” *Science Advances* 8 (2022): eabo6254; Traberg, Roozenbeek, and van der Linden, “Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation,” *Annals AAPSS* 700 (2022): 136–51. Also want to remind people about the website, if you're into reading we have tons of information by multiple contributors, and we got t-shirts up on the site if you're interested. Fun fact, the art is all based on the eyeball.
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