Eastern Orthodox War Justification and Ecclesial Dilemmas Arising from the War in Ukraine (2024)
Journal Article
Stoyanov, Y. (2024). Eastern Orthodox War Justification and Ecclesial Dilemmas Arising from the War in Ukraine. Studies in World Christianity, 30(2), 230-248. https://doi.org/10.3366/swc.2024.0472

The escalation of ecclesial and religio-political conflicts since Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has further complicated the convoluted ecclesial situation in Ukraine and has been addressed in a series of sermon... Read More about Eastern Orthodox War Justification and Ecclesial Dilemmas Arising from the War in Ukraine.

The War in Ukraine: Challenges to Just War Doctrines in Eastern Orthodoxy (2024)
Journal Article
Stoyanov, Y. (2024). The War in Ukraine: Challenges to Just War Doctrines in Eastern Orthodoxy. Studies in Christian Ethics, 37(3), 669-692. https://doi.org/10.1177/09539468241258947

The sequence and escalation of Russian–Ukrainian political and military conflicts since 2014, culminating in Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, have reopened interest in and debates on just war theory and practice in general and specifica... Read More about The War in Ukraine: Challenges to Just War Doctrines in Eastern Orthodoxy.

Sharing Myths, Texts and Sanctuaries in the South Caucasus: Apocryphal Themes in Literatures, Arts and Cults from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages (2022)
Book
Dorfmann, I. (Ed.). (2022). Sharing Myths, Texts and Sanctuaries in the South Caucasus: Apocryphal Themes in Literatures, Arts and Cults from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages. Peeters. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2tjdgt6

This volume is one of the few collections of studies that looks at the South Caucasus - from the Black Sea in the west to the Caspian Sea in the east - as a shared cultural space. It explores contacts between Armenians, Georgians, Kurds and Muslims o... Read More about Sharing Myths, Texts and Sanctuaries in the South Caucasus: Apocryphal Themes in Literatures, Arts and Cults from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages.

Christian Heretical Participation in the Rebellion of Börklüce Mustafa and Sheikh Bedreddin – Reappraising the Evidence (2021)
Journal Article
Stoyanov, Y. (2021). Christian Heretical Participation in the Rebellion of Börklüce Mustafa and Sheikh Bedreddin – Reappraising the Evidence. Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe, 11, 443-461. https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140x.11.22

The outbreak and Balkan and Anatolian trajectories of the rebellions of Borkluce Mustafa and Sheikh Bedreddin in 1416 still pose a series of religio-historic problems which still do not allow a satisfactory and detailed reconstruction of their chrono... Read More about Christian Heretical Participation in the Rebellion of Börklüce Mustafa and Sheikh Bedreddin – Reappraising the Evidence.

The Adoption of the Swedish Rite in Eighteenth-Century Russia – Acculturation, Power Politics and Mysticism (2021)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2021). The Adoption of the Swedish Rite in Eighteenth-Century Russia – Acculturation, Power Politics and Mysticism. In J. M. Hartley, & D. J. B. Shaw (Eds.), Magic, texts and travels: homage to a scholar, Will Ryan (79-99). Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia

The Sacred Spaces and Sites of the Mediterranean in Contemporary Theological, Anthropological and Sociological Approaches and Debates (2020)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2020). The Sacred Spaces and Sites of the Mediterranean in Contemporary Theological, Anthropological and Sociological Approaches and Debates. In S. Ferrari, & A. Benzo (Eds.), Between Cultural Diversity and Common Heritage. Legal and Religious Perspectives on the Sacred Places of the Mediterranean (25-36). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315569109-3

Modern and post-secular Alevi and Bektaşi religiosities and the Slavo-Turkic heretical imaginary (2019)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2019). Modern and post-secular Alevi and Bektaşi religiosities and the Slavo-Turkic heretical imaginary. In D. Sosnowska, & E. Drzewiecka (Eds.), The Experience of Faith in Slavic Cultures and Literatures in the Context of Postsecular Thought (129-144). The University of Warsaw Press. https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323537175.pp.128-143

The problem of contemporary and post-secular Alevi and Bektāşī religiosities in Turkey, South-East Europe and in diasporic milieux in Western Europe and North America has been attracting some increasing attention since the late 1980s. Following deca... Read More about Modern and post-secular Alevi and Bektaşi religiosities and the Slavo-Turkic heretical imaginary.

The role of religious institutions: Peace in Eastern Orthodoxy (2019)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2019). The role of religious institutions: Peace in Eastern Orthodoxy. In A. Kulnazarova, & V. Popovski (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Global Approaches to Peace (461-476). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78905-7_22

The historical and religious roots, transformations and current manifestations of attitudes to peace and peacebuilding in Eastern Orthodox cultures have attracted less thorough investigation and attention than their Western Christian counterparts to... Read More about The role of religious institutions: Peace in Eastern Orthodoxy.

Subverting Scripture by Parascriptural Works in Medieval Eastern and Western Christian Dualism (2018)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2018). Subverting Scripture by Parascriptural Works in Medieval Eastern and Western Christian Dualism. In M. Blidstein, S. Ruzer, & D. Stökl Ben Ezra (Eds.), Scriptures, Sacred Traditions, and Strategies of Religious Subversion (203-217). Mohr Siebeck

The Debate on Medieval Western Christian Dualism through the Prism of Slavonic Pseudepigrapha (2018)
Journal Article
Stoyanov, Y. (2018). The Debate on Medieval Western Christian Dualism through the Prism of Slavonic Pseudepigrapha. Scrinium Сцриниум (Sankt-Peterburg. Print) (Sankt-Peterburg. Print), 14(1), 334-350. https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-00141P23

The study of the Old Slavonic pseudepigrapha has assumed wider significance in wider areas of Jewish and Christian religious history after recent research has indicated their importance for the investigation of early Jewish and Christian apocalyptici... Read More about The Debate on Medieval Western Christian Dualism through the Prism of Slavonic Pseudepigrapha.

A Renaissance Interrupted? Debating Personhood through a Sexual Act in the Twelfth-Century Christianate and Islamicate Worlds (2018)
Book Chapter
Hamzić, V. (2018). A Renaissance Interrupted? Debating Personhood through a Sexual Act in the Twelfth-Century Christianate and Islamicate Worlds. In S. Schmidtke (Ed.), Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935-2018 (308-321). Gorgias Press. https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463240035-040

Esotericism and Visionary Mysticism in Medieval Byzantine and Slavonic Orthodox Pseudepigraphic and Heretical Literature (2018)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2018). Esotericism and Visionary Mysticism in Medieval Byzantine and Slavonic Orthodox Pseudepigraphic and Heretical Literature. In N. Radulović (Ed.), Esotericism, Literature and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe (13-29). University of Belgrade

St. Constantine-Cyril's Mission to the Abbasid Court and Eastern Orthodox Ideology of Warfare (2017)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2017). St. Constantine-Cyril's Mission to the Abbasid Court and Eastern Orthodox Ideology of Warfare. In M. B. Panov (Ed.), The Byzantine Missionary Activity and Its Legacy in Europe (19-28). Euro-Balkan University

The historical development and modern transformations of the attitudes of Eastern Orthodox cultures and ecclesiastical elites to the problems and ethics of war display both significant analogies and dissimilarities to the respective Western Christian... Read More about St. Constantine-Cyril's Mission to the Abbasid Court and Eastern Orthodox Ideology of Warfare.

Religious Dualism and the Abrahamic Religions (2015)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2015). Religious Dualism and the Abrahamic Religions. In A. J. Silverstein, & G. G. Stroumsa (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions (405-425). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199697762.013.30

The problem of the nature and dynamics of the interrelations between traditions of religious dualism and Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is of major importance for the exploration and understanding of some of the characteristic theological tensions... Read More about Religious Dualism and the Abrahamic Religions.

Eastern Orthodox Christianity: Religion, War and Ethics (2014)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2014). Eastern Orthodox Christianity: Religion, War and Ethics. In G. M. Reichberg, & H. Syse (Eds.), Religion, War, and Ethics A Sourcebook of Textual Traditions (164-234). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511979651.005

Apocalypticizing Warfare: From political theology to imperial eschatology in seventh-to early eighth-century Byzantium (2014)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2014). Apocalypticizing Warfare: From political theology to imperial eschatology in seventh-to early eighth-century Byzantium. In S. La Porta, & K. Bardakjian (Eds.), The Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition. A Comparative Perspective (379-433). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004270268_019

Medieval Christian Dualist Perceptions and Conceptions of Biblical Paradise (2013)
Journal Article
Stoyanov, Y. (2013). Medieval Christian Dualist Perceptions and Conceptions of Biblical Paradise. Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe, 3, 149-166. https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140X.03.11

The article intends to draw attention to some of the most significant and telling appropriations of traditional themes of Biblical paradise in medieval Christian dualism (namely, Paulicianism, Bogomilism and related groups in Eastern Christendom and... Read More about Medieval Christian Dualist Perceptions and Conceptions of Biblical Paradise.

Question of the Existence of Dualist Layers in Alevi/Bektāşī Syncretism and their Central Asian, Anatolian or Balkan Provenance (2013)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2013). Question of the Existence of Dualist Layers in Alevi/Bektāşī Syncretism and their Central Asian, Anatolian or Balkan Provenance. In A. H. Pries, L. Martzolff, C. Ambos, & R. Langer (Eds.), Rituale als Ausdruck von Kulturkontakt: ‚Synkretismus‘ zwischen Negation und Neudefinition (131-151). Harrassowitz

The Interchange between Religious Heterodoxies in the Balkans and Caucasus: The Case of the Paulicians (2012)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2012). The Interchange between Religious Heterodoxies in the Balkans and Caucasus: The Case of the Paulicians. In I. Biliarsky, A. Oroveanu, & O. Cristea (Eds.), The Balkans and Caucasus: Parallel Processes on the Opposite Sides of the Black Sea (106-116). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Defenders and Enemies of the True Cross: The Sasanian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614 and Byzantine Ideology of Anti-Persian Warfare (2011)
Book
Stoyanov, Y. (2011). Defenders and Enemies of the True Cross: The Sasanian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614 and Byzantine Ideology of Anti-Persian Warfare. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1553/0x0028e87e

The Persian conquest of Jerusalem and the Holy Land in 614 represented one of the crucial episodes and high points of the last great war of antiquity between Sasanian Persia and the East Roman/Byzantine empires (603-628). The purpose of this monograp... Read More about Defenders and Enemies of the True Cross: The Sasanian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614 and Byzantine Ideology of Anti-Persian Warfare.