Katya Tolstaya

Biographic Data

ID3470090
NAMEKatya Tolstaya
GIVEN NAMESKatya
FAMILY NAMETolstaya
SIGNATURETOLSTAYA K
AFFILIATIONSVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS5
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • Furthering the Dialogue Between Religious Studies and Theology

    Open AccessKatya Tolstaya, Frank Peter Bestebreurtje et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…2021Cited by: 3References: 9

    Debates on the relation between theology and religious studies ultimately revolve around epistemological questions: What are the respective limits of religious and academic knowledge and reasoning, and along what boundaries can they meet? This contribution argues that the "reality of religion" is the shared subject matter of these disciplines. For methodological purposes, a distinction is made between two poles: the "transcendent frame" of theolo…

  • Orthodox kaleidoscope

    Open AccessKatya TolstayaARTICLEReligion State & Society2020Cited by: 1References: 8

    This introduction to ‘Orthodox Kaleidoscope: Heterogeneity, Complexity, and Dynamics in the Russian Orthodox Church’ sheds light on its contributions from a methodological-theoretical angle. Six of the seven contributions to this issue spring from an interdisciplinary academic network established in 2015 by scholars of 15 institutions in search of approaches and theories that would do justice to the multifaceted and fluid return of the Russian Or…

  • Orthodox Paradoxes

    Katya TolstayaBOOKOrthodox Paradoxes2014

    The contemporary Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) is in a paradoxical situation: On all levels of Church life, new practices and concepts are considered to belong to Orthodox tradition, yet at the same time Orthodoxy is regarded as the most “unchangeable” and normative of the Christian confessions. So what makes tradition? The nineteen contributions in this volume examine the ambiguities and complexities created by the dynamic between tradition and …

  • Stained Glasses and Coloured Lenses

    Open AccessKatya TolstayaARTICLEReligion and Gender2014Cited by: 1References: 7

    The Pussy Riot performance and the ensuing case posed a challenge not only to power structures in Russia, but also to scholars studying post-traumatic post-Soviet Russia. The case exposed the complex of ideology, image- and myth-forming on all societal levels, not least regarding the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and church-state relations. This essay proposes a kaleidoscopic approach in order to ask how to get to the real persons beyond the imag…

  • Stained Glasses and Coloured Lenses

    Open AccessKatya TolstayaARTICLEReligion and Gender2014

    The Pussy Riot performance and the ensuing case posed a challenge not only to power structures in Russia, but also to scholars studying post-traumatic post-Soviet Russia. The case exposed the complex of ideology, image- and mythforming on all societal levels, not least regarding the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and church-state relations. This essay proposes a kaleidoscopic approach in order to ask how to get to the real persons beyond the image…

  • Interview with Ekaterina Samutsevich

    Open AccessKatya Tolstaya, Heleen Zorgdrager et al.ARTICLEReligion and Gender2014References: 1

    Interview with Ekaterina Samutsevich, member of Pussy Riot.Translated into English by Katya Tolstaya and Stella Rock

  • Introduction to the special issue on Pussy Riot’s Punk Prayer

    Open AccessAnne-Marie Korte, Heleen Zorgdrager et al.ARTICLEReligion and Gender2014References: 2

    Religion and Gender is the first peer-reviewed, international journal for the systematic study of gender and religion in an interdisciplinary perspective. The journal explores the relation, confrontation and intersection of gender and religion, taking into account the multiple and changing manifestations of religion in diverse social and cultural contexts. It analyses and reflects critically on gender in its interpretative and imaginative dimensi…

  • Interview with Ekaterina Samutsevich

    Open AccessKatya Tolstaya, Heleen Zorgdrager et al.ARTICLEReligion and Gender2014

  • Introduction to the Special Issue on Pussy Riot’s Punk Prayer

    Open AccessAnne-Marie Marie, Heleen Zorgdrager et al.ARTICLEReligion and Gender2014References: 1

    This special issue of Religion and Gender studies the interrelationship between political protest and religious culture in the Pussy Riot case, looking at the interferences of gender, religion, politics and art in Pussy Riot's famous performance in Moscow in February 2012 and in its multiple afterlives and resonances. The political art collective Pussy Riot's protest in the form of a 'Punk Prayer' invocating 'the Virgin Mary to chase Putin away' …

  • Inventing a Saint

    Katya Tolstaya, P G A Versteeg et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…2014References: 1

    This article deals with the narrative of a Russian Orthodox priest, Father Arseny—a Soviet era martyr in the eyes of his adherents—whose memories are said to be collected by some of his followers. However, the origins of the story (first published in the 1990s) remain controversial. Russian Orthodox supporters, in conjunction with the translator of Father Arseny's hagiography, have been at the forefront to give credibility to the memory of Father…