(Dis)Belief in QAnon: Competing Hermeneutics in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election

dc.contributor.authorButters Albion M.
dc.contributor.organizationfi=John Morton -keskus|en=John Morton Center|
dc.contributor.organization-code1.2.246.10.2458963.20.82554735124
dc.converis.publication-id177123315
dc.converis.urlhttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/Publication/177123315
dc.date.accessioned2025-08-28T01:16:45Z
dc.date.available2025-08-28T01:16:45Z
dc.description.abstract<p> Among many disruptive events in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election, the meta-conspiracy theory known as QAnon surged, intertwining politics and (quasi-)religious belief in ways that have yet to be fully understood. This article explores the power of deep memetic frames—namely, how we ideologically see the world and communicate that worldview—as a means used by certain individuals and amplified by politicians, including President Trump, to mobilize the voting public across party lines. It also reveals how representations of QAnon by the mainstream media played into the movement’s success. For QAnon followers, the election became a crossroads moment, a “Great Awakening” whereby one could identify as part of a collective insider movement. Examining the epistemological de/construction of truth in a media context and diverging hermeneutical approaches—faith and suspicion, respectively—the article argues for the importance of religion as a lens to better understand QAnon in a deeply polarized United States. <br></p>
dc.identifier.eissn1795-6161
dc.identifier.jour-issn1795-6161
dc.identifier.olddbid207312
dc.identifier.oldhandle10024/190339
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.utupub.fi/handle/11111/50998
dc.identifier.urlhttp://widerscreen.fi/numerot/3-4-2022-widerscreen-26-3-4/disbelief-in-qanon-competing-hermeneutics-in-the-2020-u-s-presidential-election/
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi-fe2022121371233
dc.language.isoen
dc.okm.affiliatedauthorButters, Albion
dc.okm.discipline517 Political scienceen_GB
dc.okm.discipline614 Theologyen_GB
dc.okm.discipline616 Other humanitiesen_GB
dc.okm.discipline517 Valtio-oppi, hallintotiedefi_FI
dc.okm.discipline614 Teologiafi_FI
dc.okm.discipline616 Muut humanistiset tieteetfi_FI
dc.okm.internationalcopublicationnot an international co-publication
dc.okm.internationalityDomestic publication
dc.okm.typeA1 ScientificArticle
dc.publisherFilmiverkko ry
dc.publisher.countryFinlanden_GB
dc.publisher.countrySuomifi_FI
dc.publisher.country-codeFI
dc.publisher.placeTurku
dc.relation.ispartofjournalWiderScreen
dc.relation.issue3-4
dc.source.identifierhttps://www.utupub.fi/handle/10024/190339
dc.title(Dis)Belief in QAnon: Competing Hermeneutics in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election
dc.year.issued2022

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