For Putin, God, and Country: American Converts to the Russian Orthodox Church

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For Putin, God, and Country: American Converts to the Russian Orthodox Church: Why are Americans with no ethnic ties to Russia converting to the Russian Orthodox Church? Dr. Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, author of Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia, joins us to discuss why people who a ... by The Revealer

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