School of Theology and Religious Studies

Research interests:

• history of theology in Estonia,
• methodology and historiography of church history,
• secularization,
• interconfessional relations combined with national(ist) ideas,
• Lutheran-Orthodox-Roman Catholic relations,
• Baltic German heritage in Estonian context.

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Research interests:

• Estonian, Baltic, and Scandinavian church history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,
• state-church relations,
• the history of Orthodox Churches in the Baltic states and in the Balkans,
• the relationship between nationalism and religion in Northern Europe,
• the ecumenical movement in the Baltic states and Scandinavia. 

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Research interests:

• sociological studies of religion in the contemporary Estonian Orthodox Church,
• conciliarity (sobornost) in the contemporary Estonian Orthodox Church.

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Research interests: 

• Orthodox church history and theology,
• history of the Russian Orthodox Church, particularly among Russia’s non-Slavic peoples in the imperial period,
• intercultural theology,
• interfaith dialogue,
• missiology,
• ecumenical relations.

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Research interests:

• history of the Orthodox Church in imperial Russia, inter-war Estonia, and the Soviet Union,
• history of the Old Believers and edinoverie,
• history of confessional pluralism and diversity,
• history of freedom of conscience and religious toleration,
• history of the Estonian Swedes.

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Research interests:

• patristic hermeneutics,
• Augustine, 
• history of creeds,
• Trinitarian theology.

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Research interests:

• Academic literature of Tartu University in the Early Modern Era,
• Neo-Latin language and rhetoric,
• Intellectual history and textual hermeneutics.

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Research interests:

• Orthodox ecclesiastical and liturgical textiles,
• Christ Epitaphioi in Estonian Orthodox Churches.

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Research interests:

• contemporary theology,
• science-and-religion,
• philosophies of religion and science,
• intercultural theology and interreligious studies,
• gender studies,
• theological anthropology. 

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Research interests:

• systematic and ecumenical theology,
• philosophy of religion,
• semiotics of religion. 

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Research interests:

• systematic theology,
• science-and-religion dialogue in general and the neuropsychology of religion and ritual behavior in particular,
• neuropsychological links between human sexuality and spirituality.

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Research interests:

• philosophy of science,
• religiosity in science,
• dialogue between science and religion,
• pragmaticist approach to reality.

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Research interests:

• general, systematic and practical Christian theology, 
• connection between Christian theology and positive/existential psychology,
• Eastern and Western Christian asceticism and spirituality in modern application. 

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Research interests:

• didactics of religious education,
• values of education in schools more broadly, and issues related to cultural and religious diversity in schools from the perspective of both learners and teachers.

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Research interests:

• religiosity of Estonians in history and today,
• religious trends in the western cultural space in the 21st century. 

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Research interests:

• practical theology,
• analysis of confirmation and sociological research on the Christian worldview,
• analysis of Christian worship and the process of liturgical renewal in the Lutheran Church.

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Research interests: 

• practical and systematic theology,
• Christian faith and practice in modern society,
• Lutheran identity and developments in Lutheran theology,
• different forms and factions of Christianity.

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Research interests:

• methodology and didactics of humanities and social studies,
• teaching of sensitive and controversial topics,
• students' experiences with sensitive and controversial learning content. 

Research interests:

• psychology of religion,
• pastoral psychology,
• psychology of interpersonal conflict and public speaking,
• psychology of pastoral counseling.

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Research interests:

• interpretation of the Early Christian texts from the perspective of cultural analysis,
• interaction of religion and society.

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Research interests:

• New Testament exegesis, hermeneutics and theology,
• socio-historical and ideological studies of New Testament literature,
• pseudepigraphic literature of the late Second Temple period.

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Research interests:

• form history of the Ancient Hebrew and West Semitic literature (wisdom, psalms, prophetic literature, narratives),
• history of traditions and religion of Ancient Israel in the first and second temple periods,
• exegesis, hermeneutics and theology of the Old Testament / Hebrew Bible,
• literary, form and reception history of the Book of Job.

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Research interests:

• Semitic philology,
• folkloristics,
• the comparative study of ancient narratives,
• the ideological and cultural aspects of ancient Near Eastern societies, 
• anthropology,
• evolutionary psychology,
• cognitive science of religion, which approaches he aspires to apply alongside with traditional philology in the study of historical texts,
• cognitive historiography.

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Research interests:

• history of Jewish ideas and identity and Jewish ethics,
• religion in modern-day Israel,
• history of Jewish ideas in 19th century,
• religious and cultural life of the Estonian Jewish community in the first half of the 20th century,
• reception history of the biblical book of Job in early rabbinic literature.

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Research interests:

• religious history of the ancient Near Eastern region,
• the early (pre-Hammurapi) Mesopotamian pantheon with a focus on the deities of magic and healing,
• parallels between the Old Testament and the ancient Near Eastern literatures,
• the religions and history of ancient and modern Iran. 

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Research interests:

• Semiotics of Abrahamic religions, with a focus on Judaism and Eastern Orthodox Christianity;
• modeling information dynamics within Jewish and other communities, considered as semiospheres; 
• Semiotics of Jewish identity, especially in terms of individual agency navigating within and among semiospheres;
• Juri Lotman and C.S. Peirce studies.

Research interests:

• religion(s) of Roman Syria,
• the cult of the goddess Atargatis,
• ancient mythology.

Research interests:

• hasidism.

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Research interests:

• exegesis, hermeneutics, and theology of the Old Testament / Hebrew Bible,
• the development, form, and interpretation history of the Books of Jonah and Joel,
• the influence of linguistic and literary studies methods on reading Old Testament narratives.

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Research interests:

• classical philology (Ancient Greek and Latin),
• the style and poetry of the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible (Septuagint),
• Old Greek Job.

Research interests:

• intellectual history and sociology of religion,
• Soviet antireligious policy and atheist propaganda,
• secularization,
• historical and contemporary forms of religion and nonreligiosity,
• changes in the religious landscape,
• and the junctions of (non)religion and nationalism, and (non)religion and nature.

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Research interests:

• Religious history of the Roman empire,
• so called oriental cults in the Roman empire,
• cult of Mithras,
• gnosticism.

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Research interests:

• historical and present-day context of Islam,
• the diversity problems in Islamic countries,
• Islamophobia in Estonia.

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Research interests:

• religious concepts of the human body,
• the relations between verbal and physical expressions of religiosity, and areas of cultural contact. This may involve historical contacts between people with different religious backgrounds, as well as overlapping of vernacular and literary cultures in texts and practices, which offer different perspectives for viewing the world.

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Research interests:

• Method and Theory in the Study of Religion,
• Evolutionary and Cognitive Sciences of Religion,
• Intellectual history of Social, Cultural and Religious Evolutionism,
• History of the Study of Religion.

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Research interests:

• Anthropology of Religion;
• Indigenous Religions in North-East India;
• Ritual Practices and Interpretations.

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Research interests:

• folklore and religious syncretism,
• the influence of pre-Islamic traditions on modern Iranian religious practices,
• the relationship between vernacular beliefs and Islamic orthodoxy in Iran.

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Research interests:

• historical and present-day context of Islam,
• the diversity problems in Islamic countries,
• Islamophobia in Estonia.

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Research interests:

• globalization and labor market adjustments to global structural shocks,
• migration and economic and social integration of immigrants,
• digitalization and new ways of work, including growth of remote work, rise of coworking spaces and increasing flexibility of work.

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Research interests:

• institutional Buddhism's symbiosis,
• the Himalayan region's indigenous belief system,
• vernacular religious practices,
• importance of vernacular symbols in redefining and understanding the perspective of different communities and ideas of belonging,
• the role of religion and culture on the broader social conflict,
• foreign policymaking within the transnational framework of the politics of globalization,
• conceptualization of national identity.

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