Sergei Shtyrkov is a social anthropologist and a specialist in the anthropology of religion, ethnicity and nationalism. After graduating from the Department of History at St. Petersburg State University, he attended the doctoral programme at the Department of Anthropology at the European University in St. Petersburg, where he remained to teach after graduation. He defended his thesis at the Russian State University for the Humanities. In 2002-2022 he worked as a senior researcher in the Caucasus Department of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2022-2024 he is a research professor at the Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études – PSL, Paris, France.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books
- Религия, или Узы благочестия. СПб.: Издательство Европейского университета в Санкт-Петербурге, 2021.
- Предания об иноземном нашествии: крестьянский нарратив и мифология ландшафта (на материалах Северо-Восточной Новгородчины). СПб.: Наука, 2012.
Journal articles
- 2024 – An Ancient Shrine, Archaeological Excavations and the Bones of Forgotten Ancestors in North Ossetia: How Offended Believers Created a Religion. Archives de sciences sociales des religions 206: 23-46.
- 2023 – Fear and loathing in North Ossetia: how ethnic activism can turn into religious nativism // Religion State and Society 51(1): 83-101
- 2022 – Ирон хадзар (Ирон хæдзар) как элемент социальной инфраструктуры в современном североосетинском городе // Антропологический форум, n 55: 195–220.
- 2022 – «Это, говорят, ваше местное место силы»: духовный туризм на Сейдозере глазами проводников по Кольскому полуострову // Антропологический форум, n 55: 257–296 (with Aliona Davydova)
- 2021 – Ossetian Ritual Feasts and Transpersonal Experience: Re-description of a Religion as a Religious Practice // Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics 15 (2): 74–88. DOI: 10.2478/jef-2021-0018
- 2020 – Академическое религиоведение и антиколониальный протест: случай осетинского нативистского активизма // Антропологический форум. n 46. С. 127–154.
- 2016 – «Церквушка над тихой рекой»: русское классическое искусство и советский пейзажный патриотизм // Этнографическое обозрение, 2016, №6. 44-57.
- 2016 – “The Fight between Ases and Devas Runs through Our Whole Existence”: The Conspirological Imaginary of North Ossetian Intellectuals and the Search for Meaning in National History » // Forum for Anthropology and Culture, 2016. n. 12: 229-252.
- 2015 – Orthodox Traditionalism in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania: The Ethnicization of Religion as the “Internal Mission” of the Russian Orthodox Church // State, Religion and Church, 2(1): 75-105.
