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Sergei Shtyrkov’s Publications

(with Jeanne Kormina) “The Female Spiritual Elder and Death: Some Thoughts on Contemporary Lives of Russian Orthodox Saints.” State, Religion and Church 4, no. 2 (2017): 4–24.

“Ossetien und die Osseten.” In Das Handbuch der Iranistik, edited by Ludwig Paul, vol. 2, 51–56. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2017.

“‘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 12 (2016): 229–252.

“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, no. 1 (2015): 75–105.

(with Jeanne Kormina) “Believers’ Letters as Advertising: St Xenia of St Petersburg’s ‘National Reception Center’.” In Russian Cultural Anthropology after the Collapse of Communism, edited by Albert Baiburin, Catriona Kelly, and Nikolai Vakhtin, 155–182. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2012.

“The Unmerry Widow: The Blessed Kseniia of Petersburg in Hagiography and Hymnography.” In Holy Foolishness in Russia: New Perspectives, edited by Priscilla Hunt and Svitlana Kobets, 281–304. Bloomington: Slavica Publications, 2011.

(with Jeanne Kormina) “St Xenia as a Patron of Female Social Suffering: An Essay on Anthropological Hagiology.” In Multiple Moralities and Religions in Post-Soviet Russia, edited by Jarrett Zigon, 168–190. New York: Berghahn Books, 2011.

(with Jeanne Kormina) “Niemand und nichts ist vergessen. Die Okkupation in mündlichen Zeugnissen.” Osteuropa 55, no. 4-6 (2005): 444–461.