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Sarah Riccardi-Swartz

Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, an Assistant Professor of Religion and Anthropology at Northeastern University, is the author of Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia (Fordham University Press, 2022). She is currently completing a book manuscript tentatively entitled, Digital Dissidents: Science, Technology, and Orthodoxy in Generically used to describe factions of right-wing politics that are outside of and often critical of traditional conservatism. Learn more Media Worlds.

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Religion Dispatches
Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, has been complicit in the political rhetoric used by Vladimir Putin. In one of her first articles on…
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Religion Dispatches
When insurrectionists stormed the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, most news reports focused on those who were Pro-Trump evangelicals and their ties to white Christian nationalism . Yet, as the…
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