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Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, Candace Lukasik - Orthodox Christianity in America, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Orthodox Christianity in America

An Introduction

Av Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, Candace Lukasik

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Orthodox Christianity in America: An Introduction offers a thematically driven, anthropological account of how Orthodox Christian life has been shaped in the United States through migration, empire, and racial formation. Rather than presenting a single linear history, the book examines Orthodoxy as a dynamic and contested field of transnational religious practice, institutional development, and cultural negotiation.Drawing on historical and ethnographic approaches, the book traces how Orthodox communities—from Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia—have established religious worlds across the United States while navigating shifting conditions of belonging and exclusion. It foregrounds key forces—colonialism, capitalism, and communism—that have structured Orthodox subjectivities and institutions across homelands and diaspora. Through case studies and thematic chapters, the book explores migration infrastructures, racialization, jurisdictional tensions, conversion, and digital religious publics. It demonstrates that Orthodoxy’s presence in America is both enduring and unevenly recognized, shaped by overlapping national affiliations, transnational ecclesial authority, and the racial and political conditions that determine when Orthodoxy becomes visible or remains marginal within dominant narratives of American religion.This book is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in religious studies, anthropology, history, theology, and American studies, as well as scholars of Christianity, migration, and Middle Eastern and Eastern European diasporas. It also serves as an accessible resource for readers seeking a critical anthropological introduction to Orthodox Christian histories in the United States.
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Sarah Riccardi-Swartz is Assistant Professor of Religion and Anthropology at Northeastern University, where she is also a faculty affiliate in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. She is the author of Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia (Fordham University Press, 2022) and co-editor of Anthropologies of Orthodox Christianity: Theology, Politics, Ethics (Fordham University Press, 2025).Candace Lukasik is a Yang Visiting Scholar in World Christianity at Harvard Divinity School. She is the author of Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of U.S. Empire (NYU Press, 2025) and co-editor of Anthropologies of Orthodox Christianity: Theology, Politics, Ethics (Fordham University Press, 2025).

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"Orthodox Christianity in America addresses the realities of the American expression of Orthodoxy through anthropological and sociological perspectives. This approach has long been needed, and this excellent and unique book will set the bar for future such studies. Orthodox Christianity in America will be welcomed by students, scholars, and anyone interested in better understanding the presence of this ancient tradition on American soil."- Carrie Frederick Frost, Western Washington University"This fluently written and well-researched study succeeds in encapsulating the past and present of the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches in America through a finely tuned analytical lens. It makes a strong and persuasive case for including Orthodoxy in the study of religion in America writ large."- Alexander Kitroeff, Haverford College

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