Organizational and program committees of the Congress

Marianna Shakhnovich – Professor, Head of the Department of Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies of St. Petersburg State University(Saint-Petersburg) – Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee;

Liubov Musienko – Director of the State Museum of the History of Religion (Saint-Petersburg) – Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee;

Ekaterina Teryukova –Deputy Director of the State Museum of the History of Religion, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies of St. Petersburg State University (Saint-Petersburg) – Secretary of the Organizing Committee;

Evgeny Arinin – Professor, Head of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of Vladimir State University (Vladimir);

Petr Dashkovsky – Professor, Head of the Department of Political History, National and State-Confessional Relations, Head of the Laboratory of Ethnocultural and Religious Studies of the Faculty of Mass Communications, Philology and Political Science of Altai State University (Barnaul);

Ekaterina Elbakyan – Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Religious Studies and Ethnocultural Studies and Expertise, Institute of Public Administration and Management of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Moscow);

Nikolay Shaburov – Professor, Head of the Educational and Scientific Center for the Study of Religions of the Russian State Humanitarian University (Moscow);

Elena Stepanova – Professor, Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Philosophy and Law, Ural Branch of the RAS, (Yekaterinburg);

Andrei Zabiyako – Professor, Head of the Department of Religious Studies and History of Amur State University, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the SB RAS, Editor-in-Chief of Religion Studies Journal (Blagoveshchensk) – Chair of the Program Committee.