Chair of Comparative Religious Studies

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:

• 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:

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

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Research interests:

• religious folklore in South Asia,
• ritual, sacrifice, and possession,
• lived Hinduism in West Bengal, India, and its diaspora.

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Research interests:

• dance and embodiment in religious context,
• philosophical anthropology,
• sacred dance in cross-cultural perspective.

Research interests:

• yoga,
• history of ideas and intellectual history,
• cross-cultural knowledge exchange.

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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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