J Eugene Clay
Biographic Data
| ID | 1132642 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Eugene Clay |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Eugene |
| FAMILY NAME | Clay |
| SIGNATURE | CLAY J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0336-6668 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The First Twenty Years of the Religious Studies PhD at Arizona State University
This article offers a brief history of the first two decades of the religious studies PhD program at Arizona State University. Founded in 2004, the program built on a strong tradition of public scholarship and methodological pluralism. It combined rigorous training in theory, pedagogy, and specialized research across global religious traditions. Despite financial crises and structural mergers, the program has flourished. Distinguished by their di…
The Eclectic Quests of Late Soviet Spiritual Seekers
Soviet reverence for science and utopian visions inspired a profusion of faith groups in the USSR’s end times, but the influence of globalization was also strong, and it continues to shape Russia’s post-Soviet religious field
The Beast Computer of Brussels
In 1972, the American Pentecostal preacher David Wilkerson produced a fifty-minute film, The Rapture, depicting “the return of Jesus Christ.” Subtly alluding to the apocalyptic “mark of the beast” (Revelation 13:16–18), the film featured a gigantic computer called “the Beast.” Located in Brussels, the Beast controlled global commerce by tracking every human on earth with numbers “invisibly ‘laser’ tatooed on the forehead or the back of the hand.”…
Buddhism in the Post-Soviet Religious Marketplace
On Sunday, January 18, 1998, an unusual sight greeted Muscovites strolling down Ostozhenka Street, not far from the Kremlin. A group of Buddhist lamas, dressed in their saffron robes, were gathering on the grounds of the recently reopened Russian Orthodox Convent of the Conception. Led by Nimazhap Il’ich Iliukhinov (b. 1963), the abbot of the “Dharma” Buddhist community in the Siberian city of Ulan-Ude, the lamas were holding a congress in Moscow…
Folklore and Conspiracy Theories of a Covid Dissenter
The religious studies scholar Bruce Lincoln famously defined myth as “ideology in narrative form” that “naturalizes and legitimizes” social taxonomies. Over two decades, Father Sergii (Romanov), a convicted murderer who turned toreligion while in prison, has used myth to shape his public persona, legitimize his spiritual leadership, cultivate the loyalty of his followers, and articulate a vision of holy Russia that seeks to reconcile the Soviet a…
Contact, Conflict, and Crisis in Eastern Christianity
In this issue of Canadian-American Slavic Studies , eight authors explore Eastern Christian communities from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Originating as papers presented at the sixth biennial conference of the Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture ( http://easternchristianity.org ) at Rhodes College in 2015, these articles have been carefully selected for their original contributions and revised for pu…
The “Quaker Heresy” in Siberia
In the 1670s, from his underground prison in Pustozersk, the Old Believer leader Archpriest Avvakum, misled by Anglican propaganda, equated the “Quaker heresy” with bestiality. Decades later, the Russian sought to eradicate a religious movement that it mislabeled the “Quaker heresy” (better known as the khlysty or flagellants): two special commissions in 1733–1739 and 1745–1756 arrested, imprisoned, and exiled hundreds of peasants and townsmen wh…
Marian Revelations in the Russian Context
Modern Marian apparitions have often responded to various incarnations of rational Enlightenment political thought, from the 1830 French revolution to Soviet socialism and the international Communist movement. Through her apparitions, the Virgin and her devotees have engaged in “cosmopolitics” by offering an alternative to a purely secular political order. Denying a mechanistic universe, Mary testifies to the existence of a compassionate, persona…
How the Jesuits Survived Their Repression
Originally published in Italian in 1997 as La Compagnia di Gesù nell’Impero Russo (1772–1820) e la sua parte nella restaurazione generale della Compagnia, Father Marek Inglot’s revised doctoral dissertation offers a detailed institutional history of the Society of Jesus from its official repression in 1773 to its restoration in 1814. Translated and edited by Daniel L. Schlafly, this English edition makes Inglot’s fascinating account accessible to…
Centers and Peripheries in Eastern Christianity
Russian Spiritual Christianity and the Closing of the Black-Earth Frontier
Russia’s expansion to the south in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries encouraged the development of new, dynamic religious movements, including Spiritual Christianity. Represented today by the two important Russian religious traditions of the Dukhobors and the Molokans, Spiritual Christianity first appears in archival documents from the 1760s in the black-earth provinces of Voronezh and Tambov. Holding to a radical eschatology that predicte…
The Woman Clothed in the Sun
With its violent images of heavenly and earthly combat, the book of Revelation has been criticized for promoting a vengeful and distorted version of Christ's teachings. Gerd Lüdemann, for example, has attacked the book as part of the "dark side of the Bible," and Jonathan Kirsch believes that the pernicious influence of Revelation "can be detected in some of the worst atrocities and excesses of every age, including our own." Yet, surprisingly, no…
Mapping Thelimits of Orthodoxy
The Church of the Transfiguring Mother of God and Its Role in Russian Nationalist Discourse, 1984—991
The decline and fall of the Communist regime in the Soviet Union provoked intense apocalyptic expectations even as it opened new possibilities for religious believers. In 1990, a new law on freedom of conscience transformed the religious landscape by legalizing movements that had once existed only underground, by encouraging new interest in old religious institutions, and by creating the conditions for the emergence of many new religious movement…
Power and the Sacred in Revolutionary Russia
Apocalypticism in the Russian borderlands
Literary Images of the Russian "Flagellants," 1861-19051
The Theological Origins of the Christ-Faith [Khristovshchina]
EUGENE CLAY (Chicago, IL, U.S.A.) The Theological Origins of the Christ-Faith [Khristovshchina]* By the end of the seventeenth century, a mysterious religious movement had arisen on the Upper Volga and established itself in Moscow. The adepts of this religion, which they called the khristovshchina or the khristovoverie' (both terms can be translated "the faith of Christ" or "Christ-Faith") consci- entiously attended the services of the official O…
The Theological Origins of the Christ-Faith [Khristovshchina]
EUGENE CLAY (Chicago, IL, U.S.A.) The Theological Origins of the Christ-Faith [Khristovshchina]* By the end of the seventeenth century, a mysterious religious movement had arisen on the Upper Volga and established itself in Moscow. The adepts of this religion, which they called the khristovshchina or the khristovoverie' (both terms can be translated "the faith of Christ" or "Christ-Faith") consci- entiously attended the services of the official O…
Literary Images of the Russian "Flagellants," 1861-19051
Apocalypticism in the Russian borderlands
Power and the Sacred in Revolutionary Russia
The Church of the Transfiguring Mother of God and Its Role in Russian Nationalist Discourse, 1984—991
The decline and fall of the Communist regime in the Soviet Union provoked intense apocalyptic expectations even as it opened new possibilities for religious believers. In 1990, a new law on freedom of conscience transformed the religious landscape by legalizing movements that had once existed only underground, by encouraging new interest in old religious institutions, and by creating the conditions for the emergence of many new religious movement…
Mapping Thelimits of Orthodoxy
The Woman Clothed in the Sun
With its violent images of heavenly and earthly combat, the book of Revelation has been criticized for promoting a vengeful and distorted version of Christ's teachings. Gerd Lüdemann, for example, has attacked the book as part of the "dark side of the Bible," and Jonathan Kirsch believes that the pernicious influence of Revelation "can be detected in some of the worst atrocities and excesses of every age, including our own." Yet, surprisingly, no…
Centers and Peripheries in Eastern Christianity
Russian Spiritual Christianity and the Closing of the Black-Earth Frontier
Russia’s expansion to the south in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries encouraged the development of new, dynamic religious movements, including Spiritual Christianity. Represented today by the two important Russian religious traditions of the Dukhobors and the Molokans, Spiritual Christianity first appears in archival documents from the 1760s in the black-earth provinces of Voronezh and Tambov. Holding to a radical eschatology that predicte…
How the Jesuits Survived Their Repression
Originally published in Italian in 1997 as La Compagnia di Gesù nell’Impero Russo (1772–1820) e la sua parte nella restaurazione generale della Compagnia, Father Marek Inglot’s revised doctoral dissertation offers a detailed institutional history of the Society of Jesus from its official repression in 1773 to its restoration in 1814. Translated and edited by Daniel L. Schlafly, this English edition makes Inglot’s fascinating account accessible to…
The “Quaker Heresy” in Siberia
In the 1670s, from his underground prison in Pustozersk, the Old Believer leader Archpriest Avvakum, misled by Anglican propaganda, equated the “Quaker heresy” with bestiality. Decades later, the Russian sought to eradicate a religious movement that it mislabeled the “Quaker heresy” (better known as the khlysty or flagellants): two special commissions in 1733–1739 and 1745–1756 arrested, imprisoned, and exiled hundreds of peasants and townsmen wh…
Marian Revelations in the Russian Context
Modern Marian apparitions have often responded to various incarnations of rational Enlightenment political thought, from the 1830 French revolution to Soviet socialism and the international Communist movement. Through her apparitions, the Virgin and her devotees have engaged in “cosmopolitics” by offering an alternative to a purely secular political order. Denying a mechanistic universe, Mary testifies to the existence of a compassionate, persona…
Contact, Conflict, and Crisis in Eastern Christianity
In this issue of Canadian-American Slavic Studies , eight authors explore Eastern Christian communities from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Originating as papers presented at the sixth biennial conference of the Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture ( http://easternchristianity.org ) at Rhodes College in 2015, these articles have been carefully selected for their original contributions and revised for pu…
Folklore and Conspiracy Theories of a Covid Dissenter
The religious studies scholar Bruce Lincoln famously defined myth as “ideology in narrative form” that “naturalizes and legitimizes” social taxonomies. Over two decades, Father Sergii (Romanov), a convicted murderer who turned toreligion while in prison, has used myth to shape his public persona, legitimize his spiritual leadership, cultivate the loyalty of his followers, and articulate a vision of holy Russia that seeks to reconcile the Soviet a…
Buddhism in the Post-Soviet Religious Marketplace
On Sunday, January 18, 1998, an unusual sight greeted Muscovites strolling down Ostozhenka Street, not far from the Kremlin. A group of Buddhist lamas, dressed in their saffron robes, were gathering on the grounds of the recently reopened Russian Orthodox Convent of the Conception. Led by Nimazhap Il’ich Iliukhinov (b. 1963), the abbot of the “Dharma” Buddhist community in the Siberian city of Ulan-Ude, the lamas were holding a congress in Moscow…
The Eclectic Quests of Late Soviet Spiritual Seekers
Soviet reverence for science and utopian visions inspired a profusion of faith groups in the USSR’s end times, but the influence of globalization was also strong, and it continues to shape Russia’s post-Soviet religious field
The Beast Computer of Brussels
In 1972, the American Pentecostal preacher David Wilkerson produced a fifty-minute film, The Rapture, depicting “the return of Jesus Christ.” Subtly alluding to the apocalyptic “mark of the beast” (Revelation 13:16–18), the film featured a gigantic computer called “the Beast.” Located in Brussels, the Beast controlled global commerce by tracking every human on earth with numbers “invisibly ‘laser’ tatooed on the forehead or the back of the hand.”…
The First Twenty Years of the Religious Studies PhD at Arizona State University
This article offers a brief history of the first two decades of the religious studies PhD program at Arizona State University. Founded in 2004, the program built on a strong tradition of public scholarship and methodological pluralism. It combined rigorous training in theory, pedagogy, and specialized research across global religious traditions. Despite financial crises and structural mergers, the program has flourished. Distinguished by their di…
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