This volume explores the relationship between new media and religion, focusing on the WWW's impact on the Russian Orthodox Church.

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Dr. Mikhail Suslov holds a PhD in history from the European University Institute (Florence). Now he is a Marie Curie fellow at Uppsala University s Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Uppsala University. His academic interests include Russian intellectual history, geopolitical ideologies and utopias, religious (Orthodox) political theorization. His most recent publications are: Suslov (2014). "Holy Rus": The Geopolitical Imagination in the Contemporary Russian Orthodox Church. Russian Politics & Law, 52(3); Suslov (2014). Crimea Is Ours! Russian popular geopolitics in the new media age. Eurasian Geography and Economics, 55(6). The author of the foreword: Fr. Cyril Hovorun is a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate); currently a senior lecturer at Stockholm School of Theology / Sankt Ignatios Academy in Sweden and a researcher at Columbia University.