Dr. Alexander Agadzhanyan

Department
Department of Religious Studies

Position
Professor

Academic degree
Dr. hab. in History

Background

Education: Institute of Asian and African Countries at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, major – World History (1981).

Academic and educational activity

• Graduate student at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 1981-1985.
• Junior Researcher (1986), Researcher (1988), Chief Researcher (1992-2000), Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow).
• Visiting Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Arizona State University (Department of Religious Studies, Arizona State University), 2000-2003, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
• Professor, Center for Religious Studies, RSUH, 2003-present.

Courses taught:

• Anthropology of religion.
• Religion in the modern world.
• Modern issues of religious studies.
• History of religions: Buddhism.
• Sociology of religion.
• Religion and the secular world.