Shtyrkov
Biographic Data
| ID | 39823 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shtyrkov |
| FAMILY NAME | Shtyrkov |
| SIGNATURE | SHTYRKOV |
| AFFILIATIONS | European University at Saint Petersburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1664-3575 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Fallen Hero Writes a Letter to the Future
The article deals with a pattern of Soviet civil rituals of the 1960s where a soldier killed at the WWII was “given” a personal voice to address the living. In an atheist state, listening to the voices of the dead should not have been a conventional metaphor; however, the organizers of these ritual performances took what was happening as seriously as possible. The article focuses upon the story of three such “letters to the future” written for th…
The Ossetes
An Ancient Shrine, Archaeological Excavations and the Bones of Forgotten Ancestors in North Ossetia
The Russian Orthodox Church is implementing projects to mark the space of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania as Orthodox, that is, as a legitimate space for its activities and institutional dominance. This policy also involves representing the Ossetian past as Orthodox, notably through the restoration of ancient buildings connected with Orthodoxy. However, the Church does not have a monopoly on creating a public narrative about the past of this…
It is “Blasphemy to touch this burial”
In 2020, in the Republic of North Ossetia - Alania, excavations of a burial ground near the medieval chapel in the village of Nuzal started. This architectural object is very important for the historical memory of Ossetians, as it is considered the tomb of Os-Bagatar, the last king of an independent medieval state of Alans, ancestors of Ossetians. In addition, this small building is inscribed as a very important element in two competing narrative…
Fear and loathing in North Ossetia
This contribution examines how ethnic activism in a republic of the Russian North Caucasus region, namely North Ossetia-Alania, is viewed by various social groups as a religious protest movement. This interpretation is influenced by anti-colonial discourse and an ideological agenda linking issues of religious identity and political loyalty. At the centre of these disputes are ideas about whether the ethnic religion of the Ossetian people is the l…
A Gallery of Ghosts
Forum 58
Linguistic anthropology taken as a union of linguistics and anthropology in the study of language and culture was established more than a century ago. In recent decades, one can observe signs both of its gradual integration into the Western anthropological project, and of a its certain esotericization and marginalization. In Russian academia, a stricter division of labor is normal: ethnographers deal with culture, philologists and linguists deal …
Martha’s Ladle
The infrastructural turn in the social sciences comes from a tendency to change the anthropocentric epistemology in social research. This new approach corresponds to the classic program of social anthropology as it makes the known unknown and provides one more perspective which helps reveal the invisible politics, inequalities, and social tensions. Yet, when it comes to the social research in the field of religion, the interest to how infrastruct…
“Material Religion” as a Method in Social Anthropology and the Problem of the Researcher’s Access to “Real” Religious Experience (Conclusion)
The methods of “material religion” elaborated in social anthropology and the materialistic (Marxist) approach to the study of religious life are methodologically different ways of turning our accustomed understanding upside down: the spiritual activity of Homo religiosus, acting as generating source, produces something material—sacred images, houses of prayer, and objects of worship. The method of material religion involves determining how the cu…
The Iron Khadzar as an Element of the Social Infrastructure in a Modern North Ossetian City
The article describes khadzars—special ritual houses built in the courtyards of residential areas of Vladikavkaz (Republic of North Ossetia—Alania) that have become elements of informal social infrastructure. As a venue for ritual feasts, khadzars are built by families living in a multi-storey house or complex of houses and are the responsibility of the “khadzar activists”—groups of adult men who organise and oversee collective rituals during fun…
“This, They Say, Is Your Local Place of Power”
So-called spiritual tourism, the most important part of which is travelling to “places of power”, is a dynamically developing trend in the tourism industry. However, the market for services in this field is far from being transparently and pragmatically structured in every place. Sometimes it is consistently transformed through the creation and promotion of an easily recognisable consumer product offered by specialised entrepreneurs. Somewhere, h…
The Term Osq’opili (“a Former Ossetian”) in Eighteenth-Century Georgian Documents and in Early Twenty-First-Century Traditionalist Debates of North Ossetia-Alania
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Ossetian Ritual Feasts and Transpersonal Experience
The protest of the North Ossetian nativist religious movement against discourses of dominant institutions in the public sphere involves as its necessary component ‘re-description’ of religion in general and ‘re-constructed’ religious systems in particular. Usually, this means revealing allegedly forgotten ancient meanings of indigenous customs, rituals and folklore texts through the use of various concepts taken from esotericism and/or practical …
Academic Religious Studies and Anticolonial Protest
А Н
The Spiritual Version of History as Discursive Order of Political Eschatology
Sacred Landscapes Through the Lens of Religious Nationalism
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The Spiritual Version of History as Discursive Order of Political Eschatology
Sacred Landscapes Through the Lens of Religious Nationalism
Sciendo provides publishing services and solutions to academic and professional organizations and individual authors. We publish journals, books, conference proceedings and a variety of other publications
Academic Religious Studies and Anticolonial Protest
А Н
The Term Osq’opili (“a Former Ossetian”) in Eighteenth-Century Georgian Documents and in Early Twenty-First-Century Traditionalist Debates of North Ossetia-Alania
წ
Ossetian Ritual Feasts and Transpersonal Experience
The protest of the North Ossetian nativist religious movement against discourses of dominant institutions in the public sphere involves as its necessary component ‘re-description’ of religion in general and ‘re-constructed’ religious systems in particular. Usually, this means revealing allegedly forgotten ancient meanings of indigenous customs, rituals and folklore texts through the use of various concepts taken from esotericism and/or practical …
Martha’s Ladle
The infrastructural turn in the social sciences comes from a tendency to change the anthropocentric epistemology in social research. This new approach corresponds to the classic program of social anthropology as it makes the known unknown and provides one more perspective which helps reveal the invisible politics, inequalities, and social tensions. Yet, when it comes to the social research in the field of religion, the interest to how infrastruct…
“Material Religion” as a Method in Social Anthropology and the Problem of the Researcher’s Access to “Real” Religious Experience (Conclusion)
The methods of “material religion” elaborated in social anthropology and the materialistic (Marxist) approach to the study of religious life are methodologically different ways of turning our accustomed understanding upside down: the spiritual activity of Homo religiosus, acting as generating source, produces something material—sacred images, houses of prayer, and objects of worship. The method of material religion involves determining how the cu…
The Iron Khadzar as an Element of the Social Infrastructure in a Modern North Ossetian City
The article describes khadzars—special ritual houses built in the courtyards of residential areas of Vladikavkaz (Republic of North Ossetia—Alania) that have become elements of informal social infrastructure. As a venue for ritual feasts, khadzars are built by families living in a multi-storey house or complex of houses and are the responsibility of the “khadzar activists”—groups of adult men who organise and oversee collective rituals during fun…
“This, They Say, Is Your Local Place of Power”
So-called spiritual tourism, the most important part of which is travelling to “places of power”, is a dynamically developing trend in the tourism industry. However, the market for services in this field is far from being transparently and pragmatically structured in every place. Sometimes it is consistently transformed through the creation and promotion of an easily recognisable consumer product offered by specialised entrepreneurs. Somewhere, h…
It is “Blasphemy to touch this burial”
In 2020, in the Republic of North Ossetia - Alania, excavations of a burial ground near the medieval chapel in the village of Nuzal started. This architectural object is very important for the historical memory of Ossetians, as it is considered the tomb of Os-Bagatar, the last king of an independent medieval state of Alans, ancestors of Ossetians. In addition, this small building is inscribed as a very important element in two competing narrative…
Fear and loathing in North Ossetia
This contribution examines how ethnic activism in a republic of the Russian North Caucasus region, namely North Ossetia-Alania, is viewed by various social groups as a religious protest movement. This interpretation is influenced by anti-colonial discourse and an ideological agenda linking issues of religious identity and political loyalty. At the centre of these disputes are ideas about whether the ethnic religion of the Ossetian people is the l…
A Gallery of Ghosts
Forum 58
Linguistic anthropology taken as a union of linguistics and anthropology in the study of language and culture was established more than a century ago. In recent decades, one can observe signs both of its gradual integration into the Western anthropological project, and of a its certain esotericization and marginalization. In Russian academia, a stricter division of labor is normal: ethnographers deal with culture, philologists and linguists deal …
An Ancient Shrine, Archaeological Excavations and the Bones of Forgotten Ancestors in North Ossetia
The Russian Orthodox Church is implementing projects to mark the space of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania as Orthodox, that is, as a legitimate space for its activities and institutional dominance. This policy also involves representing the Ossetian past as Orthodox, notably through the restoration of ancient buildings connected with Orthodoxy. However, the Church does not have a monopoly on creating a public narrative about the past of this…
The Fallen Hero Writes a Letter to the Future
The article deals with a pattern of Soviet civil rituals of the 1960s where a soldier killed at the WWII was “given” a personal voice to address the living. In an atheist state, listening to the voices of the dead should not have been a conventional metaphor; however, the organizers of these ritual performances took what was happening as seriously as possible. The article focuses upon the story of three such “letters to the future” written for th…
The Ossetes
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