“Only Russia Can Save the World”

Reactive Orthodoxies, Political Technology, and Religious Worldbuilding

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  • Sarah Riccardi-Swartz Northeastern University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33356/temenos.160164

Keywords:

Russia, United States, Orthodox Christianity, far right, media technologies

Abstract

Drawing on previous research dedicated to the examination of far right media worlds that link Christian conservatives in the United States and Russia, this talk offers a broad overview of how technology and ideology transform American social ecologies. Contending that digital media are crucial to the social recalibrations of Russian Orthodoxy in the global context, this talk invites us to see better the philosophical connections across local religious beliefs and global politics in our mediated contemporary moment.

Author Biography

Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, Northeastern University

is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern University, USA.

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Published

2025-06-06

How to Cite

Riccardi-Swartz, S. (2025). “Only Russia Can Save the World”: Reactive Orthodoxies, Political Technology, and Religious Worldbuilding . Temenos - Nordic Journal for the Study of Religion, 61(1), 7–26. https://doi.org/10.33356/temenos.160164

Issue

Vol. 61 No. 1 (2025): Temenos - Nordic Journal for the Study of Religion

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Temenos lecture

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