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Religious Studies BA and MA Alumna Highlighted on NPR

May 10, 2022 by Jane Terry

Dr. Sarah Riccardi-Swartz

Dr. Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, MSU Religious Studies BA (2012) and MA (2014) alumna, was interviewed by Odette Yousef for a news article on NPR.org today, “Orthodox Christian churches are drawing in far-right American converts”.

Based on Riccardi-Swartz’s research on a community of mostly former evangelical Christians and Catholics who had joined the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, and her recent book, Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia, Riccardi-Swartz notes that many of the converts “had grown disillusioned with social and demographic change in the United States” and sought a more secure and unchanging church.  But in these congregations Riccardi-Swartz also found “strong strains of nativism, white nationalism and pro-authoritarianism, evidenced by strong admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin.”

For those of you who were unable to attend our special guest lecture with Riccardi-Swartz in April, “(Un)Holy War: Russian Radicalism, Ukrainian Resistance, and Reactive Imaginaries Abroad”, you can read the NPR article that includes insights from Riccardi-Swartz and others here:

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/10/1096741988/orthodox-christian-churches-are-drawing-in-far-right-american-converts

 

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