Religious transformation in Maya Guatemala: cultural collapse and Christian Pentecostal revitalization

Abstract

right American Orthodoxy can go. However, Riccardi-Swartz does not generalise her description of the communities to ROCOR as a whole, let alone to other Orthodox jurisdictions. Indeed, she points to an important division within ROCOR between older community members, mostly of Russian origin, who are uneasy about Putin’s Russia, and newer converts of wide-ranging origins, frequently of American evangelical backgrounds, unquestioningly devoted to Putin’s authoritarianism and conservativism in alliance with the Church. Studies might show that the converts’ moral and political views are becoming more widespread in ROCOR.