Dr. Elena A. Stepanova, Yekaterinburg, Russia CURRICULUM VITAE Elena Alekseevna Stepanova [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0002-2559-3573 Date and place of Birth: August 24, 1956, Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), USSR. Degrees and Education: 2000 – Ural State University, Yekaterinburg, Doctor of Science (Philosophy). 1983 – Institute of Philosophy, USSR Academy of Science, Moscow, Candidate of Science (Philosophy). 1978 – Ural State University, Diploma in Journalism. Professional Experience: December 1999 – until present time – Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Philosophy and Law, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia. November 2016 – until present time – Editor-in-Chief, journal “Changing Societies & Personalities” published by the Ural Federal University. September 2014 – until present time – Researcher (part-time), Laboratory on Toleration, Recognition and Multiculturalism, Ural Institute of Humanities, Ural Federal University. 1995-1998 – doctorate program, Department of Philosophy, Ural State University. 1982-1995 – associate professor, Department of Philosophy, Ural State Technical University, Yekaterinburg, Russia. 1978-1982 – graduate school, Department of Philosophy, Ural State University. 1973-1978 – student, Department of Journalism, Ural State University. Stipends and Grants: 2019 – Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Boston University, Boston, MA (USA). 2018-2020 – Russian Science Foundation grant “Concepts of Conflict and Concord in Russian Thought in the Context of European Approaches, 18th – 20th Centuries”. 2017-2019 – Russian Scientific Foundation grant “Religious Majority/Minority in Public Space in Russia and Northern Europe: Historical-Cultural Analysis”. 1 Dr. Elena A. Stepanova, Yekaterinburg, Russia 2010-2014 – Open Society Institute, Higher Education Support Program grant “Religion: Maximalism and Minimalism” (academic director). 2007 – School of Theology, Duke University (Durham, North Carolina, USA), summer seminar in Weslean Studies. 2003 – The Centre of Sociological Education, Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow), grant for research project “Prison and Society”. 1998 – “Open Society” Grant for the participation in ХХ World Congress of Philosophy, Boston (USA). 1996, 1997 – Council of Theological Education of Colorado, Iliff School of Theology, Denver, Colorado (USA). 1989-90 – IREX Visiting Scholar, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia (USA). Participation in International Conferences: 2019 – International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR), “The Politics of Religion and Spirituality” (Barcelona, Spain). 2018 - European Association for the Study of Religion (EASR), Annual Conference “Multiple Religious Identities” (Bern, Switzeland). 2018 – “The Politics and Pedagogy of Religion Education: Policies, Syllabi and Future Prospects” (Cape Town, South Africa). 2018 – International Study of Religion in Eastern and Central Europe Association (ISORECEA), “Un(b)locking Religion (Szeged, Hungary). 2018 – 24th Nordic Conference in the Sociology of Religion (Oslo, Norway). 2017 – Reformation in Ecumenical Perspective (Monastero di Bose, Italy). 2017 – European Association for the Study of Religion (EASR), Annual Conference “Communicating Religion” (Leuven, Belgium). 2016 – Reformation: East European Dimensions (Ostroh, Ukraine). 2016 – Religion and Nation(alism): Entanglements, Tensions, Conflicts (University of Tartu, Estonia). 2015 – XXI World Congress of International Association for the History of Religion “Dynamics of Religion: Past and Present” (Erfurt, Germany). 2014 – 22nd Nordic Conference for Sociology of Religion “Change and Continuity – Religion, State, Civil Society (Copenhagen, Denmark). 2014 – International Study of Religion in Eastern and Central Europe Association (ISORECEA), “Religious Diversification Worldwide and in Central and Eastern Europe” (Kaunas, Lithuania). 2013 – “Impact of Religion: Challenges for Society, Law and Democracy” (Uppsala, Sweden). 2013 – “Human Being and Religion” (Minsk, Belarus). 2010 – “Orthodoxy in Russian Society and Culture” (St. Petersburg, Russia). 1999 – XX World Congress in Philosophy (Boston, USA). 2 Dr. Elena A. Stepanova, Yekaterinburg, Russia Membership in Professional Associations: Member of the Governing Council of the Association of Russian Centers of Religious Studies, the associate member of the International Association of the History of Religion. Main Publications: Works originally published in English Book chapters: Stepanova, Elena. (2019). Atheism’s Peaks and Valleys in Russia. In Freethought and Atheism in Central and Eastern Europe: The Development of Secularity and Non-religion (Tomáš Bubík, Atko-Sulhan Remmel, and David Václavík, eds.). London: Routledge (upcoming). Stepanova, Elena (2004). “Religious Life in Modern Russia: Alternatives and Challenges”. In Contrasting Values and Multicultural Society. General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, United Methodist Church, pp. 116–128. Journal Articles: Stepanova, Elena (2019). Competing Moral Discourses in Russia: Soviet Legacy and Post- Soviet Controversies, Politics, Religion & Ideology, DOI: 10.1080/21567689.2019.1656070 Stepanova, Elena (2018). Moral Discourse as Resource of Publicity: Religious and Secular Alternatives. In Convention 2017 “Modernization and Multiple Modernities”, KnE Social Sciences, pp. 406–415. DOI: 10.18502/kss.v3i7.2491 https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c33e/f42027f6d9e20e2e166b99053fdf0fc0c536.pdf Stepanova, Elena (2018). Religious Education in Russia: Between Methodological Neutrality and Theological Partiality. In Changing Societies & Personalities, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 260–266. DOI: 10.15826/csp.2018.2.3.042 Stepanova, Elena (2015). "The Spiritual and Moral Foundation of Civilization in Every Nation for Thousands of Years": The Traditional Values Discourse in Russia. Politics, Religion & Ideology, Vol. 16, issue 2–3, pp. 119–136. DOI: 10.1080/21567689.2015.1068167 Stepanova, Elena (2013). “What is Truth? Voices from the Russian Prison”. Contemporary Justice Review, Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 310–326. DOI: 10.1080/10282580.2013.828914 Stepanova, Elena (fall 1997). “What Russia Believes In.: Russian Christian Tradition in Historical Perspective”. Quarterly Review, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 223–256. Stepanova, Elena (Spring 1991). Exhausted Marxism: An Examination of Marxist Doctrine in the Traditions of Russian Religious Philosophy. Soviet Studies in Philosophy. Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 6–34. DOI: 10.2753/RSP1061-196729046 Works originally published in Russian Books: Степанова Е. А. Проблема толерантности в межконфессиональных отношениях. Цикл лекций в 2-х т. Екатеринбург, Издательство Уральского университета, 2008, т. 1 – 220 3 Dr. Elena A. Stepanova, Yekaterinburg, Russia с., т. 2 – 274 с. (Stepanova, E. А. The Problem of Tolerance in Inter-confessional Relations [in two vol.]. Ural University Press, 2008, Vol. 1 – 220 p., Vol. 2 – 274 p.). Степанова Е. А. Постижение веры. Издательство Уральского университета, 1998, 252 с. (Stepanova, E. Comprehension of Faith. Ural University Press, 1998, 252 p.). Book Chapters: Степанова Е. А. Новое вино и старые мехи: христианство постсекулярной эпохи // Философия в XXI веке: вызовы, ценности, перспективы. Екатеринбург: «Макс-Инфо», 2016. с. 40–52 (Stepanova, E. New Wine and Old Wineskins: Christianity of Post-Secular Age. In Philosophy in XXI century: Challenges, Values, Perspectives. Yekaterinburg, “Maks- Info”, 2016, pp. 40–52). Степанова Е. А. Вера и толерантность. Религия в меняющемся мире. Издательство Санкт-Петербургского университета, 2012, с. 26–43 (Stepanova, E. Faith and Tolerance. In Religion in Changing World. St. Petersburg University Press, 2012, pp. 26–43). Степанова Е. А. Теологическая антропология в историческом развитии. Теология и науки о религии. Южно-Уральский государственный университет, 2011, с. 74–92 (Stepanova, E. Theological Anthropology in Historical Development. In Theology and Religious Studies. Southern Ural State University Press, 2011, pp. 74–92. Степанова Е. А. Религиозность и идентичность. Россия «двухтысячных»: стереоскопический взгляд», Москва, Планета, 2011, с. 273–305 (Stepanova, E. Religiosity and Identity. In Russia of 2000th: Stereoscopic View. Moscow, Planet, 2011, pp. 273–305). Степанова Е. А. Религия в современном российском обществе. Судьбы гражданского общества в России. Т. 2. Екатеринбург: УрО РАН, 2004, с. 225–243 (Stepanova, E. Religion in Contemporary Russian Society. In Fortunes of Civil Society in Russia, vol. 2. Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Press, 2004, pp. 225–243). Степанова Е. А. Религиозная ситуация в России и основы межконфессиональной толерантности. Социология межэтнической толерантности. М.: Издательство Института социологии РАН, 2004, с. 136–149 (Stepanova, E. Religious Situation in Russia and Foundations of Inter-confessional Tolerance. In Sociology of Inter-ethnical Tolerance. Moscow, Institute of Sociology of the RAS Press, 2004, pp. 136–149). Journal Articles: Степанова Е. Секулярность в социально-культурном контексте: пример Дании. Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Философия и конфликтология. 2019. Т. 35. Вып. 1. С. 209–221. DOI: 10.21638/spbu17.2019.117 (Stepanova, E. Secularity in the socio-cultural context: the case of Denmark. Vestnik of Saint-Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflictology. 2019, vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 209–221). Степанова Е. «Самый возвышенный и благотворный моральный кодекс, который когда-либо предлагался людям»: споры вокруг «Библии Джефферсона». Государство,