1st Edition
Orthodox Christianity in America An Introduction
Introduction
Chapter 2: Orthodox Migrations
Chapter 3: Racialization and Immigration
Chapter 4: Orthodoxy, Rights, and American Civil Society
Chapter 5: Missionization, Conversion, and Whiteness
Chapter 6: American Orthodoxy or Orthodoxy in the United States?
Chapter 7: U.S. Orthodoxy in the 21st Century
Conclusion
Biography
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 Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arkansas. 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).
