Daniela Kalkandjieva

Biographic Data

ID654677
NAMEDaniela Kalkandjieva
GIVEN NAMESDaniela
FAMILY NAMEKalkandjieva
SIGNATUREKALKANDJIEVA D
AFFILIATIONSSofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
ORCID0000-0001-5269-7434
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS8
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Prospects for Covenantal Pluralism in Bulgaria

    Daniela KalkandjievaARTICLEThe Review of Faith & International…2025References: 11

    The article outlines the prospects for covenantal pluralism in Bulgaria from a broad historical perspective. For this purpose, it explores the evolution of the attitudes to the religious other under different political regimes and social orders. The analysis is organized into three sections disclosing the peculiarities of the Bulgarian case. The first one outlines the evolution of religious diversity in Bulgaria throughout the centuries. The next…

  • Autocephaly Reconsidered: Civil Authorities as Autocephaly-Making Factors

    Open AccessDaniela KalkandjievaARTICLEReligions2024References: 13

    Contemporary scholars share a common vision of the phenomenon of autocephaly as a virtue empowering a local Orthodox church independently to elect its supreme hierarch and run its domestic affairs without the endorsement of another church leader. While the academic discussion on this subject is concentrated on the canonical and theological aspects of autocephaly, the presented study shifts the focus to the involvement of civil authorities in the …

  • Religion and Forced Displacement in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia

    Open AccessAnsgar Jödicke, Daniela Kalkandjieva et al.BOOKReligion and Forced Displacement…2022

    This book examines the social and political mobilisation of religious communities towards forced displacement in relation to tolerance and transitory environments. How do religious actors and state bodies engage with refugees and migrants? What are the mechanisms of religious support towards forcibly displaced communities? Religion and Forced Displacement in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia argues that when states do not act as prov…

  • The Economic Development of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church since the Liberation of Bulgaria (1878)

    Daniela KalkandjievaARTICLEArchives de sciences sociales des…2019References: 15

    The article traces the economic development of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church since the Liberation of Bulgaria (1878) to nowadays. Special attention is paid to the church's economic activities and status between the two World Wars. This archive-based overview offers fruitful grounds for comparison with the changes in church economy under communism, as well as with the post-1989 restoration of the economic potential of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church…

  • Hyacinthe Destivelle, The Moscow Council (1917–1918): The creation of the conciliar institutions of the Russian Orthodox Church

    Daniela KalkandjievaARTICLECanadian Slavonic Papers2016

    Hyacinthe Destivelle, The Moscow Council (1917–1918): the creation of the conciliar institutions of the Russian Orthodox Church." Canadian Slavonic Papers, 58(2), pp. 192–193

  • The Russian Orthodox Church, 1917-1948: From Decline to Resurrection

    Daniela KalkandjievaBOOKRussian Orthodox Church, 1917-19482014

    This book tells the remarkable story of the decline and revival of the Russian Orthodox Church in the first half of the twentieth century and the astonishing U-turn in the attitude of the Soviet Union’s leaders towards the church. In the years after 1917 the Bolsheviks’ anti-religious policies, the loss of the former western territories of the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union’s isolation from the rest of the world and the consequent separatio…

  • Religion and the State: A Comparative Sociology

    Daniela KalkandjievaARTICLEPolitics Religion & Ideology2012

    With a clear statement of the theoretical issues in the debates about secularization and post-secularism, Religion and the State: A Comparative Sociology considers a number of major case studies from China, Europe, Singapore and South Asia in order to understand the rise of public religions in the modern state. By distinguishing between political secularization the separation of state and religion and social secularization the transformation of t…

  • A Comparative Analysis on Church-State Relations in Eastern Orthodoxy: Concepts, Models, and Principles

    Daniela KalkandjievaARTICLEJournal of Church and State2011Cited by: 6

    Church-state relations in Eastern Orthodoxy have provoked many debates among theologians, scholars, and policy-makers. Currently, however, there is no consensus about which one of the past and present models of church-state relations can be considered properly Orthodox. The theologians belonging to this Christian denomination often criticize and even reject the Western legal systems that presume a certain degree of separation between church and s…

  • The Bulgarian Orthodox Church and the “Ethic of Capitalism”

    Open AccessDaniela KalkandjievaARTICLESocial Compass2010

    The author attempts to explore the relationship between Orthodox Christianity and the “ethic of capitalism” in Bulgarian society. According to the author, the notion of Orthodoxy as a source of the economic backwardness of Bulgaria is a complex result of historical, institutional and epistemological factors such as the impact of nineteenth-century socio-economic dynamics on the institutionalization of the Bulgarian Church, the symbiosis of Orthod…

  • Secular Orthodox Christianity’ versus ‘Religious Islam’ in Postcommunist Bulgaria

    Daniela KalkandjievaARTICLEReligion State & Society2008Cited by: 2

    (2008). ‘Secular Orthodox Christianity’ versus ‘Religious Islam’ in Postcommunist Bulgaria. Religion, State and Society: Vol. 36, Islam and Orthodoxy: Coexistence, Confrontation and Comparison, pp. 423-434