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Robertson, David G. and Amarasingam, Amarnath (2022). How conspiracy theorists argue: epistemic capital in the QAnon social media sphere. Popular Communication, 20(3) pp. 193–207.

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Robertson, David G. (2022). [Book Review] Free Zone Scientology: Contesting the Boundaries of a New Religion by Aled Thomas. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 37(2) pp. 392–393.

Robertson, David G. (2022). Religious Literacy as Religion Literacy: A Response from the UK. Method & Theory in the Study of Religion (Early Access).

Robertson, David G. (2021). Gnosticism and the History of Religions. Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation. London: Bloomsbury.

Robertson, David G. (2021). Legitimizing Claims of Special Knowledge: Towards an Epistemic Turn in Religious Studies. Temenos - Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion, 57(1) pp. 17–34.

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Robertson, David G. (2020). [Review Essay] A Gnostic Study of Religions. Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, 32(1) pp. 75–88.

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Robertson, David G. (2018). The Counter-Elite: Strategies of Authority in Millennial Conspiracism. In: Dyrendal, Asbjørn; Robertson, David G. and Asprem, Egil eds. Handbook of Conspiracy Theory and Contemporary Religion. Brill.

Robertson, David G.; Asprem, Egil and Dyrendal, Asbjørn (2018). Introducing the Field: Conspiracy Theory in, about, and as Religion. In: Dyrendal, Asbjørn; Robertson, David G. and Asprem, Egil eds. Handbook of Conspiracy Theory and Contemporary Religion. Brill.

Robertson, David G. (2017). “Tuning Ourselves”. Religion and the Arts, 21(1-2) pp. 236–258.

Robertson, David (2016). UFOs, conspiracy theories and the new age: Millennial conspiracism. Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies. Bloomsbury.

Robertson, David G. (2015). Silver Bullets and Seed Banks: A Material Analysis of Conspiracist Millennialism. Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, 19(2) pp. 83–99.

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Robertson, David G. (2015). Conspiracy Theories and the Study of Alternative and Emergent Religions. Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, 19(2) pp. 5–16.

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Robertson, David G. (2013). David Icke’s Reptilian Thesis and the Development of New Age Theodicy. International Journal for the Study of New Religions, 4(1) pp. 27–47.

Valaskivi, Katja and Robertson, David G. (2022). Introduction: epistemic contestations in the hybrid media environment. Popular Communication, 20(3) pp. 153–161.

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