2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
British Dead Sea Scrolls scholar — who controversially argued in The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross (1970) that early Christianity derived from a fertility cult using Amanita muscaria mushrooms — whose academic career was destroyed by the book.
Irish journalist and columnist — former Irish Times and Sunday Times Ireland columnist — whose writing on the Irish Free State, WWI, and the Troubles was influential and whose career ended after a 2017 column widely interpreted as antisemitic.