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Vladimir Putin has long styled himself as a defender of Christian values.
But his idea of the Russian Orthodox faith as a global political force has a lot in common with the Islamic concept of the Ummah – the worldwide community of believers.
In Part 2 of this interview, Professor Jocelyne Cesari of the Harvard Divinity School, and the author of We God’s People: Christianity, Islam and Hinduism in the World of Nations, discusses how nationalism has hijacked Russian religion.
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