The Russian Orthodox Church: 60 Years of Personal Encounter – Michael Bourdeaux

Speaker: The Revd Canon Michael Bourdeaux (Keston Institute, Oxford)

The seminar will focus on religious persecution in the Soviet Union over the last 50 years of the 20th century. The speaker is the founder of Keston Institute for the Study of Religion and Communism in Oxford, the Templeton Prize winner (1984) and the author of “The Politics of Religion in Russia and the New States of Eurasia” and “Patriarch and Prophets: Persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church Today”.