Research Center for the Study of Religion and Secularism at HSE
Center for Anthropology of Religion at the European University
St. Petersburg, Russia
(venue: Higher School of Economics, Soyuza Pechatnikov, 16)
9:30 – 10:30
Guest lecture: Kathryn Rountree. "Native Faith and modern Pagan movements in Europe, including in post-Soviet context". Massey University, New Zealand.
10:30 – 11:30 Contemporary Evangelism and Challenges of Nationalism
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Tatiana Vagramenko
. Nenets “ritualized resistance”: The role of religious conversion in indigenous awakening. National University of Ireland. Maynooth, Ireland.
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Aleksandra Djuric Milovanovic . “God doesn’t know about nationalities”: questioning religion and nationalism in the Evangelical communities in Romania. Institute for Balkan Studies
SASA. Belgrade, Serbia.
Discussant: Jeanne Kormina. Higher School of Economics, Russia.
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 – 13:30 Religious movements as protest activism
 Tova Höjdestrand.
Fatherland, faith, family: The Russian ’Parents’ movement’.
University of Lund. Lund, Sweden.
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Kaarina Aitamurto. Minority religions and the national identity in Russia: an analysis of
Islam and contemporary Slavic Paganism.
Alexanteri Institute. Helsinki, Finland.
Discussant: Andrey Shcherbak. Higher School of Economics, Russia.
13:30 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 16:00 Diaspora cleavages
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Anatoly Tokmantsev . Assirians in Armenia: maintaining ethnic identity through religious choice. European University. St.Petersburg, Russia.
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Thien-Huong Ninh . In Search of the Promised Land: The Institutionalization of the
Vietnamese Catholic Diaspora in the U.S. and Cambodia. Williams College. Williamstown, MA,
USA.
Discussant: Alexander Semyonov. Higher School of Economics, Russia.

(venue: European University at St Petersburg, Gagarinskaya 3)
9:30 – 10:30
Guest lecture: Eduard Ponarin. Islam and Nationalism in Global Context. Higher School of
Economics. St.Petersburg, Russia.
10: 30 – 11:30 Islam: global religion and local nationalisms
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Guzel Yusupova.
The Role of Islam in the discourse of Tatarstan elites. Kazan State
University. Kazan, Russia.
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Veronica Kostenko.
Gender attitudes in the Arab world: Islam, nationalism, modernisation. Higher School of Economics. St.Petersburg, Russia.
Discussant: Sergey Abashin. European University at St Petersburg, Russia.
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 – 13:30 Religion as the foundation of post-socialist national identity
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Marek Szopski & Krystina Bleszynska . Religious nationalism in Poland: roots and diversity. Warsaw University. Warsaw, Poland.
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Yulia Antonian.
On the cross-road of religious nationalisms and nationalistic religions: the Armenian case. University of Armenia. Yerevan, Armenia.
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Mihai Tarta.
Religious Nationalism and Civil Religion in Romania, 1990-2012. Baylor
University. Texas, USA.
Discussant: Eduard Ponarin. Higher School of Economics, Russia.
13:30 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 16:00 Shrines of Religious Nationalisms
 Srđan Atanasovski
. Serbian pilgrimages to Kosovo and embodying the religious nationalism. Institute of Musicology SASA. Belgrade, Serbia.
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Amaryllis Logotheti.
Stairway to National Heaven: Religious anticommunism in Greece at the beginning of the Cold War. Panteion University. Athens, Greece.
Discussant: Sergey Shtyrkov. European University at St Petersburg, Russia.
16:00 -17:00 – General discussion & closing of the workshop
19:00 - Dinner