occulture

noun

1. (uncountable)The appropriation by a subculture of occult themes (New Age, etc.) in opposition to the dominant culture.

   “UFO religions drink deeply from the waters of occulture, while, at the same time, seeking to reconcile their ideas with a contemporary secular and scientific worldview.”

   “With the term occulture I refer to a diverse milieu of spirituality that formed around esoteric discourses, as character­ized by Nina Kokkinen in her disserta­tion about occulture and modern spiritual­ity in turn­ of­ the­ century Finnish art, and its three notable artists Hugo Simberg (1873–1917), Akseli Gallen­-Kallela and Pekka Halonen (1865–1933) (Kokkinen 2019: 44).”

   “Conspirituality, in fact, helps describe some of the dynamics and one of the “contexts” in which Italian Pagan conspiracy-believing is embedded—one that, at a more general level, is characterized by what Christopher Partridge (e.g., 2004; 2005; 2014) defined as occulture.”