Reviving the violet flame: The new age conspiratorial journey of Canada’s Queen Romana Didulo
Romano Didulo, the self-proclaimed Queen of Canada, gained notoriety as an influencer online within the QAnon conspiracy movement. Taking advantage of both the pandemic and the silence of Q (the anonymous online persona behind what became the QAnon movement), Didulo has created a movement of her own...
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Published in | Studies in religion Vol. 53; no. 3; pp. 366 - 389 |
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Main Authors | , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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London, England
SAGE Publications
01.09.2024
Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion |
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Online Access | Get full text |
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Summary: | Romano Didulo, the self-proclaimed Queen of Canada, gained notoriety as an influencer online within the QAnon conspiracy movement. Taking advantage of both the pandemic and the silence of Q (the anonymous online persona behind what became the QAnon movement), Didulo has created a movement of her own. Didulo relies on a religious movement from the theosophical traditions of the 1930s and 1940s: the I AM movement, which was started by Guy Ballard and his wife Edna Anne Wheeler Ballard after Guy Ballard had a mystical encounter with Saint Germain on Mount Shasta in California. The movement’s title comes from God’s words to Moses in Exodus 3:14 – ‘I am who I am’ – and encompasses Christian dogma, occultism, eastern religions and New Age mysticism. While there is much to examine about Queen Didulo – her conspiracism, her anti-government agitation, and so on – the authors argue here that there is something at the core of all of this that has yet to be fully articulated: Didulo’s religious pedigree. |
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ISSN: | 0008-4298 2042-0587 |
DOI: | 10.1177/00084298231209700 |