Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia Riccardi-Swartz Sarah
Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia Riccardi-Swartz Sarah How is religious conversion transforming American democracy? Historically a minority…
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Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia Riccardi-Swartz Sarah
How is religious conversion transforming American democracy? Historically a minority immigrant faith in the United States, Russian Orthodoxy is attracting Americans who look to Russian religion and politics for answers to western secularism and the loss of traditional family values in the face of accelerating progressivism. In one corner of Appalachia, a group of American citizens has embraced the Russian Orthodox Church and through it Putin's New Russia.
These converts sought and found a conservatism more authentic than Christian American Republicanism and a nationalism unburdened by the broken promises of American exceptionalism. This ethnography highlights an intentional community of converts who are exemplary of much broader networks of Russian Orthodox converts in the US. Ultimately, both converts and the Church that welcomes them deploy the subversive act of adopting the ideals
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