Reviving the violet flame
The new age conspiratorial journey of Canada's Queen Romana Didulo
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3942145 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carmen Celestini (0000-0003-4783-6553, Queen's University), Amarnath Amarasingam (0000-0002-8125-1068, Queen's University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 366-389 |
| Publication date | 2024-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4298 • E-ISSN: 2042-0587 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00084298231209700 |
| OpenAlex | W4389389545 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
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
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Art history · Christianity · Literature · Movement (music · Mysticism · Queen (butterfly · SAINT · Silence · Theology · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |