Theology after Gulag
Guest: Katya Tolstaya on theology, belief, and the remaning spiritual scars after Gulag.
October 6, 2023
Religion
Catholicism in Poland
Guests: Geneviève Zubrzycki and Jose Casanova on the place of the Catholic Church in Polish politics and national identity.
September 8, 2023
Secret Police Archives as Depositories of Faith
Guests: Anca Sincan and Tatiana Vagramenko discuss the how secret police files document religious belief and worship in communist Romania and Ukraine.
August 18, 2023
Lived Religion in Ukraine
Guest: Catherine Wanner on lived religion in Ukraine, belief, belonging and community, and the impact of the war on religion.
August 4, 2023
The Day of the Baptism of Rus
Guest: Sean Griffin on his prize winning article “Revolution, Raskol, and Rock ‘n’ Roll: The 1,020th Anniversary of the Day of the Baptism of Rus” published in the Russian Review.
November 18, 2022
Russian Orthodox Converts in Appalachia
Guest: Sarah Riccardi-Swartz on Between Heaven and Russia: Religious Conversion and Political Apostasy in Appalachia published by Fordham University Press.
July 6, 2022
Immortalism and Transhumanism in Russia
Guest: Anya Bernstein on The Future of Immortality: Remaking Life and Death in Contemporary Russia published by Princeton University Press.
March 27, 2020
Soviet Atheism
Guest: Victoria Smolkin on A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism published by Princeton University Press.
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August 10, 2018
Reviving Holy Rus
Guest: John Burgess on Holy Rus’: The Rebirth of Orthodoxy in the New Russia.
May 3, 2017
May 2, 2016
