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Picking a Side: American Civic Religion and Orthodox Christianity

by Katherine Kelaidis


To believe that there will ever be a singular American Orthodox Church is, in light of the past half century’s worth of evidence, the same as believing that you will one day receive a letter from Hogwarts: A fun and childish fantasy that comes from reading comforting fiction. Moreover, Eastern Orthodox Christianity will never be an American religion. If Orthodox in America accept this as fact, they can direct their energy to contribute to a constructive American civic religion…

Katherine Kelaidis

A research associate at the Institute of Orthodox Christian studies, Cambridge, and a member of the Editorial Board of The Wheel. A former resident scholar at the National Hellenic Museum in Chicago. She is a professional historian, trained at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of London.

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