Chair of Church History

Research interests:

• history of theology in Estonia,
• methodology and historiography of church history,
• secularization,
• interconfessional relations combined with national(ist) ideas,
• Lutheran-Orthodox-Roman Catholic relations,
• Baltic German heritage in Estonian context.

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Research interests:

• Estonian, Baltic, and Scandinavian church history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,
• state-church relations,
• the history of Orthodox Churches in the Baltic states and in the Balkans,
• the relationship between nationalism and religion in Northern Europe,
• the ecumenical movement in the Baltic states and Scandinavia.

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Research interests:

• patristic hermeneutics,
• Augustine,
• history of creeds,
• Trinitarian theology.

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Research interests:

• sociological studies of religion in the contemporary Estonian Orthodox Church,
• conciliarity (sobornost) in the contemporary Estonian Orthodox Church.

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Research interests:

• Orthodox church history and theology,
• history of the Russian Orthodox Church, particularly among Russia’s non-Slavic peoples in the imperial period,
• intercultural theology,
• interfaith dialogue,
• missiology,
• ecumenical relations.

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Research interests:

• history of the Orthodox Church in imperial Russia, inter-war Estonia, and the Soviet Union,
• history of the Old Believers and edinoverie,
• history of confessional pluralism and diversity,
• history of freedom of conscience and religious toleration,
• history of the Estonian Swedes.

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Research interests:

• Orthodox ecclesiastical and liturgical textiles,
• Christ Epitaphioi in Estonian Orthodox Churches.

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Research interests:

• Academic literature of Tartu University in the Early Modern Era,
• Neo-Latin language and rhetoric,
• Intellectual history and textual hermeneutics.

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