The women of January 6 who left Christianity for faith in New Age conspiracy theories

The women of January 6 who left Christianity for faith in New Age conspiracy theories

(RNS) — Noelle Cook arrived in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021, to photograph the Stop the Steal rally, expecting to gather some images for a graduate thesis project in women’s and gender studies. She ended up chronicling an insurrection — and, more unexpectedly, growing close to some of the women who breached the U.S. Capitol that day.  In her new book, “The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging,” Cook, 58, writes about t…