Research Center for the Study of Religion and Secularism at HSE
Center for Anthropology of Religion at the European University at St Petersburg
International Workshop
Religious Nationalism as Concept and Practice
October 25-26, 2013
St. Petersburg, Russia
October, 25 (venue: Higher School of Economics, Soyuza Pechatnikov, 16)
Civil Movements
9:30 – 10:30 
Guest lecture: Kathryn Rountree. "Native Faith and modern Pagan movements in Europe, including in post-Soviet context". Massey University, New Zealand. 
10:30 – 11:50 Contemporary Evangelism and Challenges of Nationalism	
•	Yulia Antonian. On the cross-road of religious nationalisms and nationalistic religions: the Armenian case. University of Armenia. Yerevan, Armenia.
•	Aleksandra Djuric Milovanovic. “God doesn’t know about nationalities”: questioning religion and nationalism in the Evangelical communities in Romania. Institute for Balkan Studies SASA. Belgrade, Serbia.
Discussant: Jeanne Kormina. Higher School of Economics, Russia.

11:50 – 12:20 Coffee break
12:20 – 13:40 Religious movements as protest activism
•	Tova Höjdestrand. Fatherland, faith, family: The Russian ’Parents’ movement’. University of Lund. Lund, Sweden. 
•	Kaarina Aitamurto. Minority religions and the national identity in Russia: an analysis of Islam and contemporary Slavic Paganism. Alexanteri Institute. Helsinki, Finland.	
Discussant: Andrey Shcherbak. Higher School of Economics, Russia.

13:40 – 15:00 Lunch

15:00 – 16:20 Diaspora cleavages
•	Anatoly Tokmantsev. Assirians in Armenia: maintaining ethnic identity through religious choice. European University. St.Petersburg, Russia.
•	Thien-Huong Ninh. In Search of the Promised Land: The Institutionalization of the Vietnamese Catholic Diaspora in the U.S. and Cambodia. Williams College. Williamstown, MA, USA.
Discussant: Alexander Semyonov. Higher School of Economics, Russia.
October, 26 (venue: European University at St Petersburg, Gagarinskaya 3)
Mainstream ideologies

9:30 – 10:30 
Guest lecture: Eduard Ponarin. Islam and Nationalism in Global Context. Higher School of Economics. St.Petersburg, Russia. 

10: 30 – 11:50 Islam: global religion and local nationalisms
•	Guzel Yusupova. The Role of Islam in the discourse of Tatarstan elites. Kazan State University. Kazan, Russia.	
•	Veronica Kostenko. Gender attitudes in the Arab world: Islam, nationalism, modernisation. Higher School of Economics. St.Petersburg, Russia.
Discussant: Sergey Abashin. European University at St Petersburg, Russia.

11:50 – 12:20 Coffee break

12:20 – 13:40 Religion as the foundation of post-socialist national identity
•	Marek Szopski & Krystina Bleszynska. Religious nationalism in Poland: roots and diversity. Warsaw University. Warsaw, Poland.
•	Mihai Tarta. Religious Nationalism and Civil Religion in Romania, 1990-2012. Baylor University. Texas, USA.
Discussant: Eduard Ponarin. Higher School of Economics, Russia.

13:40 – 15:00 Lunch

15:00 – 16:20 Shrines of Religious Nationalisms
•	Srđan Atanasovski. Serbian pilgrimages to Kosovo and embodying the religious nationalism. Institute of Musicology SASA. Belgrade, Serbia.	
•	Amaryllis Logotheti. Stairway to National Heaven: Religious anticommunism in Greece at the beginning of the Cold War. Panteion University. Athens, Greece.
Discussant: Sergey Shtyrkov. European University at St Petersburg, Russia.

16:20 -17:00 – General discussion & closing of the workshop

19:00 - Dinner