Thread alert 🚨: (1/5)We asked our Postdoctoral Fellow @RiccardiSwartz to tell us a bit more about her research.
(2/5) “My work interrogates the political ideologies of rural American converts to Russian Orthodoxy, contextualizing them within the global drama of both the new “cultural wars” and the New Cold War.”
(3/5) “Converts I have worked with see the Russian Orthodox Church, and by extension #Putin and the #Kremlin, as moral arbiters of #truth and authentic Christianity.”
(4/5) “This conviction is strengthened by their #media consumption, which is typically content produced and controlled by the #Russian state and the ROC.”
(5/5) ”My work pays close attention to the theological ideologies found Russian media sources in order to understand why converts see them as purveyors of #truth.”
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