List of faculty members

Agadjanian, Alexander

Ph.D., History, Professor

Education and Professional Experience

• 1981: Graduated from the Institute of Asian and African Studies within Moscow State University
• 1986-1999: Worked at the Institute of Oriental Studies within the Russian Academy of Sciences
• 2000-2003: Teacher at the University of Arizona
• 2004 - to date: Professor at Russian State Humanitarian University’s Centre for the Study of Religion  

Courses for students:

• Global Problems
• Religion in the Modern World
• The Early Forms of Religion

Publications of the recent years:

• Religion and the Secular State: The Laïcité Principle in the World and Eurasia (as a co-editor), the France-Russia Centre for Humanitarian and Public Sciences, Moscow, 2008
• Religious Practices in Modern Russia (co-editing), Moscow, Novoye Izdatelstvo, 2006
• Eastern Orthodoxy in a Global Age, V. Roudometof, A. Agadjanian and J. Pankhurst, eds. Walnut Creek etc. : Altamira Press, 2005 
• Individual and Collective Identities in Russian Orthodoxy, co-authored with K. Rousselet, in C. Hann, G. Holtz, eds., Anthropologies of Eastern Christianities, forthcoming in 2009
• Eastern Christianities, a chapter in The World's Religions: Continuities and Transformations (Routledge Encyclopedia Series), London etc., Routledge, 2008
• In difesa dell'universalitàe dell'individualismo. Riposta ad Adam Seligman, Daimon, Vol. 7, 2007, p. 239-254
• Pourquoi et comment étudier les pratiques religieuses? (co-athored with Kathy Rousselet), Etudes comparatives Est-Ouest, vol. 36, no. 4, décembre 2005, 5-17.