Damian Thompson

Damian Thompson (born 1962) is a British journalist, author and blogger.

Thompson was educated at Presentation College, Reading, and read history at Mansfield College, Oxford University. He received his Ph.D in the sociology of religion from the London School of Economics for a thesis on the management of apocalyptic belief in a London Pentecostal church. Formerly Editor-in-Chief of the Catholic Herald, he remains a Director of the Catholic Herald.

A regular leader writer for The Daily Telegraph, he is Blogs Editor of the Telegraph Media Group, with responsibility for editing and commissioning blogs on politics, religion, finance and culture. Thompson himself mainly blogs about religion. He has written two books about apocalyptic belief and one about counterknowledge, "misinformation packaged to look like fact".^[1]

Books

• The End of Time: Faith and the Fear in the Shadow of the Millennium (Random House, 1999)
• Loose Canon: A Portrait of Brian Brindley (ed) (Continuum, 2004)
• Waiting for Antichrist: Charisma and Apocalypse in a Pentecostal Church (Oxford University Press, 2005)
• Counterknowledge: How We Surrendered to Conspiracy Theories, Quack Medicine, Bogus Science and Fake History (Atlantic Books, 2008)

References

1. ^ Damian Thompson's blog on Daily Telegraph website

External links

• Damian Thompson on twitter

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