CHAIR

Richard Arnold

(Muskingum U, US)

rarnold@muskingum.edu

 

 

PAPERS

Dmitry Biriukov

(UCLA, US)

dbirjuk@gmail.com
Sobornost between Ecclesiology and National Ideology in the Rhetoric of Patriarch Kirill (Gundyaev)
from the Soviet Period to the Present

 

George Soroka

(Harvard U, US)

soroka@fas.harvard.edu

The Transnational Reach of Russian Soft Power: Propaganda, War, and Influence
in the Diaspora and Russian Orthodox Church

 

Jadie Minhas

(Arizona State U, US)

jminhas@asu.edu

Faith and Force:
Religious Rhetoric and the Legitimation of Authoritarianism in Putin’s Russia

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Nikolay Zakharov

(Södertorn U, Sweden)

nikolay.zakharov@sh.se

Churches in Post-2020 Belarus:
Raising Voices in the Time of Repression and War

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DISCUSSANT

TBA

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