Ülikooli 18
50090 Tartu linn,
Tartu linn, Tartumaa
EST
+372 737 5300

School of Theology and Religious Studies

Ülikooli 18
50090 Tartu linn,
Tartu linn, Tartumaa
EST
+372 737 5300
Roland Karo
Roland Karo
dr. theol.
Head of School
+372 737 5962

Research interests:

  • systematic theology,
  • science-and-religion dialogue in general and the neuropsychology of religion and ritual behavior in particular,
  • neuropsychological links between human sexuality and spirituality.

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

Priit Rohtmets
Priit Rohtmets
PhD (Theology)
Vice Head of School

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.

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

Kairi Ots
Kairi Ots
Coordinator 0.8 p
+372 737 5301
Ülikooli 18-310
Angela Aav
Angela Aav
Academic Affairs Specialist
+372 737 5300
Ülikooli 18-310
Riho Altnurme
Riho Altnurme
dr. theol.
Professor of Church History
+372 5344 1310
Ülikooli 18-312

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.

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

Priit Rohtmets
Priit Rohtmets
PhD (Theology)
Associate Professor of Church History

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.

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

Irina Paert
Irina Paert
PhD (History)
Associate Professor of Orthodox Church History
Andrei Sõtšov
dr. theol.
Research Fellow in Church History 0.25 p
inimene
Liina Eek
PhD (Religious Studies)
Research Fellow in Church History 0.15 p

Research interests:

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

CV and publications in Estonian Research Information System

Alison Ruth Kolosova
Alison Ruth Kolosova
PhD (Theology)
Research Fellow in Church History 0.5 p

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.

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

James Matthew White
PhD
Research Fellow in Church History

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.

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

inimene
Tarmo Toom
PhD (Theology)
Visiting Research Fellow 0.25 p

Research interests:

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

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

Rahel Toomik
Rahel Toomik
MA (Theology)
Junior Research Fellow in Theology
Ülikooli 18-309A

Research interests:

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

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

Madli Sepper
Madli Sepper
MA (Native Crafts)
Junior Research Fellow in Religious Studies 0.66 p

Research interests:

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

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

Anne Kull
Anne Kull
PhD (Theology)
Professor of Systematic Theology
+372 737 5964
Ülikooli 18-314

Research interests:

  • contemporary theology,
  • science-and-religion,
  • philosophies of religion and science,
  • intercultural theology and interreligious studies,
  • gender studies,
  • theological anthropology.

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

Thomas-Andreas Põder
Thomas-Andreas Põder
dr. theol.
Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion 0.4 p
+372 737 5964
Ülikooli 18-314

Research interests:

  • systematic and ecumenical theology,
  • philosophy of religion,
  • semiotics of religion.

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Roland Karo
Roland Karo
dr. theol.
Lecturer in Systematic Theology
+372 737 5962
Ülikooli 18-314

Research interests:

  • systematic theology,
  • science-and-religion dialogue in general and the neuropsychology of religion and ritual behavior in particular,
  • neuropsychological links between human sexuality and spirituality.

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

inimene
Enn Kasak
cand (Physics-Mathematics)
Visiting Lecturer

Research interests:

  • philosophy of science,
  • religiosity in science,
  • dialogue between science and religion,
  • pragmaticist approach to reality.

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

Viktar Niachayeu
Viktar Niachayeu
MA (Intercultural Theology)
Junior Research Fellow in Theology
Ülikooli 18-309A

Research interests:

  • general, systematic and practical Christian theology,
  • connection between Christian theology and positive/existential psychology,
  • Eastern and Western Christian asceticism and spirituality in modern application.

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

Mati Simm
Mati Simm
Junior Research Fellow in Theology
Ülikooli 18-309A

Research interests:

  • theological ethics of personal finance,
  • theological virtue ethics,
  • general, systematic, and practical Christian theology.
CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System
Lea Altnurme
Lea Altnurme
dr. theol.
Associate Professor of Sociology of Religion
Ülikooli 18-312

Research interests:

  • religiosity of Estonians in history and today,
  • religious trends in the western cultural space in the 21st century.

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

Olga Schihalejev
Olga Schihalejev
dr. theol.
Associate Professor of Religious Education
Ülikooli 18-312

Research interests:

  • didactics of religious education,
  • values of education in schools more broadly, and issues related to cultural and religious diversity in schools from the perspective of both learners and teachers.

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

Kaido Soom
Kaido Soom
dr. theol.
Lecturer in Practical Theology
+372 5662 0334
Ülikooli 18-312

Research interests:

  • practical theology,
  • analysis of confirmation and sociological research on the Christian worldview,
  • analysis of Christian worship and the process of liturgical renewal in the Lutheran Church.

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

inimene
Robert Bunder
MA (Theology)
Junior Research Fellow in Theology 0.66 p

Research interests:

  • practical and systematic theology,
  • Christian faith and practice in modern society,
  • Lutheran identity and developments in Lutheran theology,
  • different forms and factions of Christianity.

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

Pille-Riin Makilla
Pille-Riin Makilla
MA (Religious Education)
Junior Research Fellow in Didactics of Humanities

Research interests:

  • methodology and didactics of humanities and social studies,
  • teaching of sensitive and controversial topics,
  • students' experiences with sensitive and controversial learning content.
CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System
Ain Riistan
Ain Riistan
dr. theol. (Theology)
Lecturer in New Testament, Programme Director
Ülikooli 18-309A

Research interests:

  • interpretation of the Early Christian texts from the perspective of cultural analysis,
  • interaction of religion and society.

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

Ergo Naab
Ergo Naab
PhD (Studies of Cultures)
Visiting Lecturer 0.5 p

Research interests:

  • New Testament exegesis, hermeneutics and theology,
  • socio-historical and ideological studies of New Testament literature,
  • pseudepigraphic literature of the late Second Temple period.

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

Urmas Nõmmik
Urmas Nõmmik
dr.theol.habil.
Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Studies
+372 737 5962
+372 503 6326
Ülikooli 18-309

Research interests:

  • form history of the Ancient Hebrew and West Semitic literature (wisdom, psalms, prophetic literature, narratives),
  • history of traditions and religion of Ancient Israel in the first and second temple periods,
  • exegesis, hermeneutics and theology of the Old Testament / Hebrew Bible,
  • literary, form and reception history of the Book of Job.

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

Amar Annus
Amar Annus
PhD
Associate Professor of Near Eastern Religions
Ülikooli 18-309

Research interests:

  • Semitic philology,
  • folkloristics,
  • the comparative study of ancient narratives,
  • the ideological and cultural aspects of ancient Near Eastern societies,
  • anthropology,
  • evolutionary psychology,
  • cognitive science of religion, which approaches he aspires to apply alongside with traditional philology in the study of historical texts,
  • cognitive historiography.

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information system

Anu Põldsam
Anu Põldsam
PhD (Theology)
Lecturer in Jewish Studies
Ülikooli 18-309

Research interests:

  • history of Jewish ideas and identity and Jewish ethics,
  • religion in modern-day Israel,
  • history of Jewish ideas in 19th century,
  • religious and cultural life of the Estonian Jewish community in the first half of the 20th century,
  • reception history of the biblical book of Job in early rabbinic literature.

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

Kristin Klaus, piiblitõlke töörühma liige
Kristin Klaus
MA (Classical Philology)
Junior Research Fellow in Religious Studies 0.5 p
Ülikooli 18-309A

Research and supervision topics:

  • bible translation
  • Septuagint (LXX) Greek

CV in Estonian Research Information System

Sander Tulk
Sander Tulk
MA
Junior Research Fellow in Theology
Ülikooli 18-309A

Research interests:

  • exegesis, hermeneutics, and theology of the Old Testament / Hebrew Bible,
  • the development, form, and interpretation history of the Books of Jonah and Joel,
  • the influence of linguistic and literary studies methods on reading Old Testament narratives.

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

Agne Pilvisto
Agne Pilvisto
MA (Comparative Literature)
Junior Research Fellow in Religious Studies 0.75 p

Research interests:

  • religion(s) of Roman Syria,
  • the cult of the goddess Atargatis,
  • ancient mythology.
CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System
Atko Remmel
Atko-Sulhan Remmel
dr. theol.
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Ülikooli 18-313

Research interests:

  • intellectual history and sociology of religion,
  • Soviet antireligious policy and atheist propaganda,
  • secularization,
  • historical and contemporary forms of religion and nonreligiosity,
  • changes in the religious landscape,
  • and the junctions of (non)religion and nationalism, and (non)religion and nature.

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

Elo Süld
Elo Süld
PhD (Theology)
Lecturer in Islamic Studies 0.5 p
Ülikooli 18-308

Research interests:

  • historical and present-day context of Islam,
  • the diversity problems in Islamic countries,
  • Islamophobia in Estonia.

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

Indrek Peedu
Indrek Peedu
PhD (Religious Studies)
Lecturer in Religious Studies
Ülikooli 18-308

Research interests:

  • Method and Theory in the Study of Religion,
  • Evolutionary and Cognitive Sciences of Religion,
  • Intellectual history of Social, Cultural and Religious Evolutionism,
  • History of the Study of Religion.

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

Erki Lind
Erki Lind
PhD (Religious Studies)
Lecturer in Religious Studies
Ülikooli 18-308

Research interests:

  • religious concepts of the human body,
  • the relations between verbal and physical expressions of religiosity, and areas of cultural contact. This may involve historical contacts between people with different religious backgrounds, as well as overlapping of vernacular and literary cultures in texts and practices, which offer different perspectives for viewing the world.

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

jaan lahe
Jaan Lahe
dr. theol.
Visiting Research Fellow

Research interests:

  • Religious history of the Roman empire,
  • so called oriental cults in the Roman empire,
  • cult of Mithras,
  • gnosticism.

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

Evakordor Benson Diengdoh
Evakordor Benson Diengdoh
MA (Political Science)
Junior Research Fellow in Religious Studies

Research interests:

  • Anthropology of Religion;
  • Indigenous Religions in North-East India;
  • Ritual Practices and Interpretations.

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

Reyhaneh Ghoroghchian
Reyhaneh Ghoroghchian
MA (Folkloristics and Applied Heritage Studies)
Junior Research Fellow in Religious Studies

Research interests:

  • folklore and religious syncretism,
  • the influence of pre-Islamic traditions on modern Iranian religious practices,
  • the relationship between vernacular beliefs and Islamic orthodoxy in Iran.

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

Malay Bera
Malay Bera
MA (Linguistics)
Junior Research Fellow in Religious Studies
Ülikooli 18-309A

Research interests:

  • religious folklore in South Asia,
  • ritual, sacrifice, and possession,
  • lived Hinduism in West Bengal, India, and its diaspora.

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

Saile Johanna Langsepp
Saile Johanna Langsepp
MA (Religious Studies)
Junior Research Fellow in Religious Studies
Ülikooli 18-309A

Research interests:

  • dance and embodiment in religious context,
  • philosophical anthropology,
  • sacred dance in cross-cultural perspective.
CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System
Anja Nikodem
MA (Ethnology)
Junior Research Fellow in Religious Studies
Ülikooli 18-309A
Elo Süld
Elo Süld
PhD (Theology)
Head of Centre
Ülikooli 18-308

Research interests:

  • historical and present-day context of Islam,
  • the diversity problems in Islamic countries,
  • Islamophobia in Estonia.

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska
Agnieszka Małgorzata Nitza-Makowska
PhD
Research Fellow in Asian Studies
Ülikooli 20-315
Helen Haas
Helen Haas
PhD (Religious Studies)
Research Fellow in Middle Eastern Studies 0.15 p, Middle East Coordinator 0.3 p
Ülikooli 18-308
inimene
Anastasia Sinitsyna
PhD (Economics)
Research Fellow in Asian Studies

Research interests:

  • globalization and labor market adjustments to global structural shocks,
  • migration and economic and social integration of immigrants,
  • digitalization and new ways of work, including growth of remote work, rise of coworking spaces and increasing flexibility of work.

CV and list of publications in Estonian Research Information System

Evelyn Pihla
Evelyn Pihla
MA (Information and Knowledge Management)
Head of Communication and Administration 0.6 p
+372 737 6380
+372 5615 8017
Ülikooli 20-315
Urmas Hõbepappel profiilipilt
Urmas Hõbepappel
MA (Asian Studies)
Analyst 0.2 p
Ülikooli 20-315