Sarah Riccardi-Swartz

Between Heaven and Russia

Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Appalachia, this book examines conversion to Russian Orthodoxy and political alignment with Russian conservative politics by contemporary rural American citizens.

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Produktdetails

• Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought
• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9780823299508
• ISBN-10: 0823299503
• Artikelnr.: 62317667

Autorenporträt

Sarah Riccardi-Swartz is a postdoctoral fellow in the Luce-funded Recovering Truth: Religion, Journalism, and Democracy in a Post-Truth Era project at the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface xi
List of Abbreviations and Terms xv
Introduction: East of Appalachia: The New Russian Turn in American
Christianity 1
1 Foreign Faith in a Foreign Land: A Discursive History of the Russian
Orthodox Church in the United States 23
2 Church of God: Traditionalism, Authenticity, and Conversion to Russian
Orthodoxy in Appalachia 37
3 America the Beautiful: Of Guns, God, and Vodka 64
4 Port of the Tsar: Material Monarchism and the End of Days 82
5 Palace of Putin: Political Ideologies in Orthodox Appalachia 107
6 A People Set Apart: Intra-Community Politics and Regionalism 135
7 The "Holler Feast": Spiritual Geographies and Temporalities 161
Conclusion: In Soviet America, Russia Converts You! 179
Epilogue 185
Acknowledgments 195
Notes 199
Works Cited 249
Index 275