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.

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.

My Grandmother Drank the Qur’an: Liquid Readings and Permeable Bodies in Bosnia (2021)
Journal Article
HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2021). My Grandmother Drank the Qur’an: Liquid Readings and Permeable Bodies in Bosnia. CounterText, 7(1), 73-89. https://doi.org/10.3366/count.2021.0216

A new sealing of Pērōz from Tak̠t-e Solaymān and its historical context (2020)
Book Chapter
Moradi, Y., & Hintze, A. (2020). A new sealing of Pērōz from Tak̠t-e Solaymān and its historical context. In R. Gyselen (Ed.), Persia, 552 BCE-758 CE : primary sources, old and new (111-134). Groupe pour l'étude de la civilisation du Moyen-Orient

The fragment of the bulla under discussion here (inv.no. 10917) is one of 824 clay bullae recovered from the World Heritage site of Taḵt-e Solaymān during archaeological excavations conducted in 2002–2008 by an Iranian team under the direction of You... Read More about A new sealing of Pērōz from Tak̠t-e Solaymān and its historical context.

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.

Syncretic Debris: From Shared Bosnian Saints to the ICTY Courtroom (2018)
Journal Article
HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2018). Syncretic Debris: From Shared Bosnian Saints to the ICTY Courtroom. EthnoScripts: Zeitschrift für aktuelle ethnologische Studien, 20(1 : Tradition, Performance and Identity Politics in European Festivals: Special issue), 79-109

This article is an anthropological postscript to the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), brought to a conclusion in 2017. Drawing on long-term fieldwork in Bosnia, I trace in the Tribunal’s archives the stran... Read More about Syncretic Debris: From Shared Bosnian Saints to the ICTY Courtroom.

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

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

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.

The Ottoman Educational Legacy (2010)
Book Chapter
Fortna, B. (2010). The Ottoman Educational Legacy. In C. Kerslake, K. Öktem, & P. Robins (Eds.), Turkey's Engagement with Modernity: Conflict and Change in the Twentieth Century (15-26). Palgrave Macmillan

A Long Farewell: Depicting the Late Ottoman Empire in Autobiographies, 1920-1950 (2010)
Journal Article
Wirtz, P. (2010). A Long Farewell: Depicting the Late Ottoman Empire in Autobiographies, 1920-1950. Polyvocia, 46-63

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

Base-line Study on Faith-based Development in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Challenges of Non-patriarchal Communities and Approach / Osnovna studija o vjerskom razvoju u Bosni i Hercegovini: Izazov vanpatrijarhalnih zajednica i pristupa (2007)
Book
Hamzić, V. (Ed.). (2007). Base-line Study on Faith-based Development in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Challenges of Non-patriarchal Communities and Approach / Osnovna studija o vjerskom razvoju u Bosni i Hercegovini: Izazov vanpatrijarhalnih zajednica i pristupa. Logos

This edited collection examines the changing attitudes of religious communities in Bosnia and Herzegovina towards gender and sexuality issues, and the impact of the emergent faith-based 'non-patriarchal' movements in this process. The communities con... Read More about Base-line Study on Faith-based Development in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Challenges of Non-patriarchal Communities and Approach / Osnovna studija o vjerskom razvoju u Bosni i Hercegovini: Izazov vanpatrijarhalnih zajednica i pristupa.

In the Countries of the Dead (2002)
Digital Artefact
Innes, M. A. (2002). In the Countries of the Dead. [Online article]. Prague

A new book on ethnic cleansing in Europe is likely to become required reading for those wishing to understand ethnic conflicts--especially in the Balkans.

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.