Tobias Koellner
Biographic Data
| ID | 187382 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tobias Koellner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tobias |
| FAMILY NAME | Koellner |
| SIGNATURE | KOELLNER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Witten/Herdecke University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7708-0542 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Mapping Research Into Religion in Family Firms: Conceptual Framework Development
Religion research is gaining prominence in family firms due to its strong connection to family traditions, values, and culture. This expanding literature highlights the need for systematic, bibliometric, and meta‐studies to comprehensively understand religion's role in family businesses. Addressing this gap, we conducted a bibliometric analysis of 131 documents (1992–2024) from Scopus. Alongside descriptive analyses, we rigorously reviewed these …
Religion in Familienunternehmen und Unternehmerfamilien
Family businesses and business families in cultural context: Interdisciplinary Updates for Family Business Research
Purpose This article shows that business family and family business research is dominated by reductionist and biased concepts of culture that are in sharp contrast with recent advances in anthropology and the broader social sciences that would allow for more fine-grained analyses. Design/methodology/approach Through an inbound theorizing approach, state-of-the-art anthropological and sociological concepts of culture are introduced to family busin…
Armenia after 2018
This book focuses on social and political developments in Armenia during a turbulent post-2018 period. Between 2018 and 2020, the country experienced three significant waves of upheaval: a revolution, a pandemic, and a war. These events had far-reaching implications for Armenia's social, cultural, security, and political foundations. The book provides both factual insights and theoretical underpinnings that help readers understand the country's t…
Family Firms and Business Families in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Bringing Anthropology Back In
This book provides an anthropological study of family businesses and business families, using a comparative cross-cultural approach.
Multiple Moralities and Religions in Post-Soviet Russia
In the post-Soviet period morality became a debatable concept, open to a multitude of expressions and performances. From Russian Orthodoxy to Islam, from shamanism to Protestantism, religions of various kinds provided some of the first possible alternative moral discourses and practices after the end of the Soviet system. This influence remains strong today. Within the Russian context, religion and morality intersect in such social domains as the…
Fundamentalism and rigorism in Orthodox Christianity: The case of contemporary Russia
Since the last socialist years and especially the end of the Soviet Union, the importance of Orthodox Christianity has greatly increased in contemporary Russia. Religion is once again an integral part of public life, plays a major role for identity issues and is entangled with the political sphere in a variety of ways. In addition, it is important to underline that within Orthodox Christianity the fundamentalist circles are gaining ground and hav…
Patriotism, Nationalism, Illiberalism in Their Relation to Religion: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
This article is the introduction to an interdisciplinary Special Issue and serves two purposes
Family firms and business families: A field for anthropological research
This article aims to bring the topics of kinship and economy together in a particular way. Family business researchers with a strong background in management studies dominate the analysis of family firms and business families. However, adding anthropological research to family business will benefit future research in both disciplines and provide a better understanding of family business beyond these research trajectories. This article aims to con…
Continuity and Change in Orthodox Christianity in Contemporary Russia: Enduring Legacies and New Developments in the Making
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in two cities of European Russia, this article analyzes continuity and changes in Orthodox Christianity. In so doing, we emphasize property restitution, the renovation of sacred sites, and the importance of religious education in public schools and parishes. Based on that ethnographic material, we address three related research topics. First, we would like to discuss the importance of Orthodox Christianity for co…
Religion and Politics in Contemporary Russia: Beyond the Binary of Power and Authority
Based on extensive original research at the local level, this book explores the relationship between Russian Orthodoxy and politics in contemporary Russia. It reveals close personal links between politicians at the local, regional and national levels and their counterparts at the equivalent level in the Russian Orthodox Church – priests and monks, bishops and archbishops – who are extensively consulted about political decisions. It outlines a con…
Orthodox Religion and Politics in Contemporary Eastern Europe: On Multiple Secularisms and Entanglements
On the Restitution of Property and the Making of ‘Authentic’ Landscapes in Contemporary Russia
Since 2010, religious organisations in the Russian Federation have been legally empowered to claim back property confiscated by the state after the October Revolution in 1917. The restitution of church buildings, however, provokes competing claims from different religious and non-religious organisations. Nevertheless, the Russian Orthodox Church has been able to reclaim most of these buildings. This article draws attention to the increase in the …
Patriotism, Orthodox religion and education: Empirical findings from contemporary Russia
In recent years, an objective of some Russian Orthodox activists and Church leaders has been the introduction of religious education in state schools which was established in Russia in 2012, following a 2009 Presidential Directive. Today, however, there are two different strands in religious education. On the one hand, there is the state’s emphasis on the bonds between Orthodox Christianity and Russian history, culture and identity. Based on this…
Practising Without Belonging? Entrepreneurship, Morality, and Religion in Contemporary Russia: Entrepreneurship, Morality, and Religion in Contemporary Russia
Inspired by Max Weber’s Protestant ethic thesis, this book examines the intersection of Russia’s economic transformation and religious revival in the sphere of morality. As revealed through the ethnographic study of businessmen in the city of Vladimir, the relations between Church and state, politics and religion, and belief and practice, are deeply ambiguous. Businessmen experience social and political pressure to practise Russian Orthodoxy, and…
Businessmen, Priests and Parishes: Religious Individualization and Privatization in Russia
Beginning in the late socialist years, the religious situation in Soviet Union changed massively and local authors from Vladimir region describe this phenomenon as religious rebirth (vozrozhdenie). The believersoften have long-term relationships with individual priests to whom they turn for various blessings, confessions, and forms of spiritual advice, including the interpretation of dreams. The advice and interpretations given by priests differ …
Ritual and commemoration in contemporary Russia
Since state atheism was abandoned in the 1990s, the Russian Federation entered what can be called a postsecular phase. Religion, formerly limited to the private sphere, reappeared in the public and underwent an astonishing religious revival. During the time of my fieldwork in 2006/2007, a tendency to favor the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and to facilitate its return to the public reached its climax. In this article I draw attention to how the p…
Spreading grace’ in post‐Soviet Russia (Respond to this article at http: (Www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
The article addresses the revival of Russian Orthodoxy as a prominent domain in the lives of many Russians. The six authors are interested in the underlying question: What makes Russian Orthodoxy a relevent and modern source of morality and identity? The circumstances of this branch of Christianity significantly differ from what has been discussed in recent years as ‘the anthropology of Christianity’. The article proposes a thematic approach in o…
Patriotism, Orthodox religion and education: Empirical findings from contemporary Russia
In recent years, an objective of some Russian Orthodox activists and Church leaders has been the introduction of religious education in state schools which was established in Russia in 2012, following a 2009 Presidential Directive. Today, however, there are two different strands in religious education. On the one hand, there is the state’s emphasis on the bonds between Orthodox Christianity and Russian history, culture and identity. Based on this…
On the Restitution of Property and the Making of ‘Authentic’ Landscapes in Contemporary Russia
Since 2010, religious organisations in the Russian Federation have been legally empowered to claim back property confiscated by the state after the October Revolution in 1917. The restitution of church buildings, however, provokes competing claims from different religious and non-religious organisations. Nevertheless, the Russian Orthodox Church has been able to reclaim most of these buildings. This article draws attention to the increase in the …
Businessmen, Priests and Parishes: Religious Individualization and Privatization in Russia
Beginning in the late socialist years, the religious situation in Soviet Union changed massively and local authors from Vladimir region describe this phenomenon as religious rebirth (vozrozhdenie). The believersoften have long-term relationships with individual priests to whom they turn for various blessings, confessions, and forms of spiritual advice, including the interpretation of dreams. The advice and interpretations given by priests differ …
Spreading grace’ in post‐Soviet Russia (Respond to this article at http: (Www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
The article addresses the revival of Russian Orthodoxy as a prominent domain in the lives of many Russians. The six authors are interested in the underlying question: What makes Russian Orthodoxy a relevent and modern source of morality and identity? The circumstances of this branch of Christianity significantly differ from what has been discussed in recent years as ‘the anthropology of Christianity’. The article proposes a thematic approach in o…
Family firms and business families: A field for anthropological research
This article aims to bring the topics of kinship and economy together in a particular way. Family business researchers with a strong background in management studies dominate the analysis of family firms and business families. However, adding anthropological research to family business will benefit future research in both disciplines and provide a better understanding of family business beyond these research trajectories. This article aims to con…
Family businesses and business families in cultural context: Interdisciplinary Updates for Family Business Research
Purpose This article shows that business family and family business research is dominated by reductionist and biased concepts of culture that are in sharp contrast with recent advances in anthropology and the broader social sciences that would allow for more fine-grained analyses. Design/methodology/approach Through an inbound theorizing approach, state-of-the-art anthropological and sociological concepts of culture are introduced to family busin…
Fundamentalism and rigorism in Orthodox Christianity: The case of contemporary Russia
Since the last socialist years and especially the end of the Soviet Union, the importance of Orthodox Christianity has greatly increased in contemporary Russia. Religion is once again an integral part of public life, plays a major role for identity issues and is entangled with the political sphere in a variety of ways. In addition, it is important to underline that within Orthodox Christianity the fundamentalist circles are gaining ground and hav…
Spreading grace’ in post‐Soviet Russia (Respond to this article at http: (Www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)
The article addresses the revival of Russian Orthodoxy as a prominent domain in the lives of many Russians. The six authors are interested in the underlying question: What makes Russian Orthodoxy a relevent and modern source of morality and identity? The circumstances of this branch of Christianity significantly differ from what has been discussed in recent years as ‘the anthropology of Christianity’. The article proposes a thematic approach in o…
Practising Without Belonging? Entrepreneurship, Morality, and Religion in Contemporary Russia: Entrepreneurship, Morality, and Religion in Contemporary Russia
Inspired by Max Weber’s Protestant ethic thesis, this book examines the intersection of Russia’s economic transformation and religious revival in the sphere of morality. As revealed through the ethnographic study of businessmen in the city of Vladimir, the relations between Church and state, politics and religion, and belief and practice, are deeply ambiguous. Businessmen experience social and political pressure to practise Russian Orthodoxy, and…
Businessmen, Priests and Parishes: Religious Individualization and Privatization in Russia
Beginning in the late socialist years, the religious situation in Soviet Union changed massively and local authors from Vladimir region describe this phenomenon as religious rebirth (vozrozhdenie). The believersoften have long-term relationships with individual priests to whom they turn for various blessings, confessions, and forms of spiritual advice, including the interpretation of dreams. The advice and interpretations given by priests differ …
Ritual and commemoration in contemporary Russia
Since state atheism was abandoned in the 1990s, the Russian Federation entered what can be called a postsecular phase. Religion, formerly limited to the private sphere, reappeared in the public and underwent an astonishing religious revival. During the time of my fieldwork in 2006/2007, a tendency to favor the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and to facilitate its return to the public reached its climax. In this article I draw attention to how the p…
Patriotism, Orthodox religion and education: Empirical findings from contemporary Russia
In recent years, an objective of some Russian Orthodox activists and Church leaders has been the introduction of religious education in state schools which was established in Russia in 2012, following a 2009 Presidential Directive. Today, however, there are two different strands in religious education. On the one hand, there is the state’s emphasis on the bonds between Orthodox Christianity and Russian history, culture and identity. Based on this…
Orthodox Religion and Politics in Contemporary Eastern Europe: On Multiple Secularisms and Entanglements
On the Restitution of Property and the Making of ‘Authentic’ Landscapes in Contemporary Russia
Since 2010, religious organisations in the Russian Federation have been legally empowered to claim back property confiscated by the state after the October Revolution in 1917. The restitution of church buildings, however, provokes competing claims from different religious and non-religious organisations. Nevertheless, the Russian Orthodox Church has been able to reclaim most of these buildings. This article draws attention to the increase in the …
Religion and Politics in Contemporary Russia: Beyond the Binary of Power and Authority
Based on extensive original research at the local level, this book explores the relationship between Russian Orthodoxy and politics in contemporary Russia. It reveals close personal links between politicians at the local, regional and national levels and their counterparts at the equivalent level in the Russian Orthodox Church – priests and monks, bishops and archbishops – who are extensively consulted about political decisions. It outlines a con…
Continuity and Change in Orthodox Christianity in Contemporary Russia: Enduring Legacies and New Developments in the Making
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in two cities of European Russia, this article analyzes continuity and changes in Orthodox Christianity. In so doing, we emphasize property restitution, the renovation of sacred sites, and the importance of religious education in public schools and parishes. Based on that ethnographic material, we address three related research topics. First, we would like to discuss the importance of Orthodox Christianity for co…
Multiple Moralities and Religions in Post-Soviet Russia
In the post-Soviet period morality became a debatable concept, open to a multitude of expressions and performances. From Russian Orthodoxy to Islam, from shamanism to Protestantism, religions of various kinds provided some of the first possible alternative moral discourses and practices after the end of the Soviet system. This influence remains strong today. Within the Russian context, religion and morality intersect in such social domains as the…
Fundamentalism and rigorism in Orthodox Christianity: The case of contemporary Russia
Since the last socialist years and especially the end of the Soviet Union, the importance of Orthodox Christianity has greatly increased in contemporary Russia. Religion is once again an integral part of public life, plays a major role for identity issues and is entangled with the political sphere in a variety of ways. In addition, it is important to underline that within Orthodox Christianity the fundamentalist circles are gaining ground and hav…
Patriotism, Nationalism, Illiberalism in Their Relation to Religion: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
This article is the introduction to an interdisciplinary Special Issue and serves two purposes
Family firms and business families: A field for anthropological research
This article aims to bring the topics of kinship and economy together in a particular way. Family business researchers with a strong background in management studies dominate the analysis of family firms and business families. However, adding anthropological research to family business will benefit future research in both disciplines and provide a better understanding of family business beyond these research trajectories. This article aims to con…
Family Firms and Business Families in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Bringing Anthropology Back In
This book provides an anthropological study of family businesses and business families, using a comparative cross-cultural approach.
Family businesses and business families in cultural context: Interdisciplinary Updates for Family Business Research
Purpose This article shows that business family and family business research is dominated by reductionist and biased concepts of culture that are in sharp contrast with recent advances in anthropology and the broader social sciences that would allow for more fine-grained analyses. Design/methodology/approach Through an inbound theorizing approach, state-of-the-art anthropological and sociological concepts of culture are introduced to family busin…
Armenia after 2018
This book focuses on social and political developments in Armenia during a turbulent post-2018 period. Between 2018 and 2020, the country experienced three significant waves of upheaval: a revolution, a pandemic, and a war. These events had far-reaching implications for Armenia's social, cultural, security, and political foundations. The book provides both factual insights and theoretical underpinnings that help readers understand the country's t…
Religion in Familienunternehmen und Unternehmerfamilien
Mapping Research Into Religion in Family Firms: Conceptual Framework Development
Religion research is gaining prominence in family firms due to its strong connection to family traditions, values, and culture. This expanding literature highlights the need for systematic, bibliometric, and meta‐studies to comprehensively understand religion's role in family businesses. Addressing this gap, we conducted a bibliometric analysis of 131 documents (1992–2024) from Scopus. Alongside descriptive analyses, we rigorously reviewed these …
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Politics (7 works) · Religious studies (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Family Business Performance and Succession (5 works) · Business (4 works)