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Sarah Riccardi-Swartz and Robert Saler

Sarah Riccardi-Swartz is a postdoctoral fellow in the Luce-Funded Recovering Truth: Religion, Journalism, and Democracy in a Post-Truth Era project in the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University. Her work is also supported by her participation as Senior Fellow in the “Orthodoxy and Human Rights” project, sponsored by Fordham University’s Orthodox Christian Studies Center, and generously funded by the Henry Luce Foundation and Leadership 100. An anthropologist, scholar of American religion, and trained documentary filmmaker, she specializes in social politics, media, race, and Orthodox Christianity. She is the author of Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia. | Robert Saler is Research Professor of Religion and Culture and Associate Dean for Evaluation at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, IN. He is the author of four books and multiple scholarly articles on religion and cultural aesthetics.

(A)theologies, Archive, OMFG, Politics/Law, Russia Invades UkraineMarch 15, 2022

Is Putin a ‘Real’ Christian? To Understand This Conflict We Need to Ask Different Questions

By Sarah Riccardi-Swartz and Robert Saler

Vladimir Putin’s campaign of violence in Ukraine has brought to the fore questions about his…

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