The religious dimensions of the QAnon movement and links with political violence have been noted by researchers. This paper furthers this scholarship by conducting an analysis of 121 religious images taken from QAnon Telegram channels over 18 months. Through adopting semiotic and hermeneutical theory, it is argued that QAnon religious imagery can be categorised into a series of types, all influenced by Christian theological themes. When interpreted in a Christian context, these images reveal a close relationship with US-based Christian evangelicalism and with Christian liberation theology movements. By presenting contemporary politics as an eschatological battle between the oppressed and oppressors, framed as the QAnon community versus the devil, the QAnon movement encourages political activism closely analogous to Christian liberation theology movements. This contributes to an explanatory framework for the connections between QAnon followers and anti-government protest and violence during the Covid-19 pandemic and the 6 January storming of the US Capitol.

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“对抗魔鬼的诡计”：将 QAnon 解读为伪基督教极端主义运动

研究人员已经注意到 QAnon 运动的宗教层面以及与政治暴力的联系。本文通过对 18 个月内从 QAnon Telegram 频道获取的 121 张宗教图像进行分析，进一步推进了这项研究。通过采用符号学和解释学理论，有人认为QAnon宗教意象可以分为一系列类型，所有类型都受到基督教神学主题的影响。当在基督教背景下解释时，这些图像揭示了与美国基督教福音派和基督教解放神学运动的密切关系。通过将当代政治呈现为被压迫者和压迫者之间的末世之战，以 QAnon 社区对抗魔鬼的形式，QAnon 运动鼓励与基督教解放神学运动非常相似的政治激进主义。这有助于为 QAnon 追随者与 Covid-19 大流行和 1 月 6 日冲击美国国会大厦期间的反政府抗议和暴力之间的联系提供一个解释框架。