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Robertson, David G. (2025). Religion and Conspiracy Theories: An Introduction. London: Routledge.

Robertson, David G. (2022). Religious Literacy as Religion Literacy: A Response from the UK. Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 34(5) pp. 475–483.

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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). Conspiracy Theories about Secret Religions: Imagining the Other. In: Urban, Hugh B. and Johnson, Paul Christopher eds. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Secrecy. Routledge Handbooks in Religion. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, pp. 380–390.

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.

Tremlett, Paul-François; Harvey, Graham; Robertson, David and Cusack, Carole (2023). Study of Religion and The Dawn of Everything. Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion (JBASR), 25 pp. 86–105.

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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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Williams, Jack and Robertson, David G (2023). “I Believe in Bees": Belief, Reconsidered. Implicit Religion, 25(1-2) pp. 1–14.