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.

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 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.

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.

Gnosis and “Gnosticism” in Alevi and Bektāşī Syncretism. Disputed Origins and New Directions for Research (2016)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2016). Gnosis and “Gnosticism” in Alevi and Bektāşī Syncretism. Disputed Origins and New Directions for Research. In M. A. Amir-Moezzi, M. De Cillis, D. De Smet, & O. Mir-Kasimov (Eds.), L'Ésotérisme shi'ite, ses racines et ses prolongements Shi'i Esotericism: Its Roots and Developments (723-742). Belgium. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.BEHE-EB.4.01193

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

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

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.

Early and recent formulations of theories for a formative Christian heterodox impact on Alevism (2010)
Journal Article
Stoyanov, Y. (2010). Early and recent formulations of theories for a formative Christian heterodox impact on Alevism. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 37(3), 261-272. https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2010.524435

Amongst the multitude of attempts to re-examine the heritage, history and textual basis of the Alevi tradition, one particular issue remains of importance; the putative relationship between Alevi and Christian groups in the Balkans and Anatolia. In p... Read More about Early and recent formulations of theories for a formative Christian heterodox impact on Alevism.

Norms of War in Eastern Orthodox Christianity (2009)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2009). Norms of War in Eastern Orthodox Christianity. In V. Popovski, G. M. Reichberg, & N. Turner (Eds.), World Religions and Norms of War (166-220). United Nations University Press

The Other God: Dualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar Heresy (2000)
Book
Stoyanov, Y. (2000). The Other God: Dualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar Heresy. Yale University Press. https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300190144

This fascinating book explores the evolution of religious dualism, the doctrine that man and cosmos are constant battlegrounds between forces of good and evil. It traces this evolution from late Egyptian religion and the revelations of Zoroaster and... Read More about The Other God: Dualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar Heresy.