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Orthodox and White?

by Inga Leonova

On March 15, 2019, Brenton Tarrant, a self-proclaimed white supremacist from Australia, shot up two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing fifty men, women, and children at prayer. The 76-page manifesto he published online prior to the attack contains some of the predictable code terms that litter white supremacist and nationalist literature, websites, and social media threads everywhere, such as “the complete racial and cultural replacement of the European people” and “mass invasion.”

Inga Leonova

A practicing architect, writer, and educator. She is the author of several publications on Orthodoxy and culture, including liturgical architecture and contemporary social issues. Her essay “The Quest for American Architecture: Modernism Meets Tradition” was included in the book Sacred Architecture in East and West edited by Cyril Hovorun (Marymount Institute Press, 2019).

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