Organizational and program committees of the Congress
Congress Organizing Committee
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);
Igor Yablokov – Professor, Department of Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies, Moscow State University (Moscow);
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.
Congress Program Committee
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;
Tatiana Chumakova – Professor of the Department of Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies, St. Petersburg State University (St. Petersburg) – Deputy Chair of the Program Committee;
Veronika Khorina – methodist, the State Museum-monument “St. Isaac's Cathedral”;
Tatiana Khizhaya – Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of Vladimir State University (Vladimir);
David Damte – independent scholar (Moscow);
Elizaveta Kizyma – Research Fellow, the State Museum of the History of Religion (St. Petersburg) – Secretary of the Program Committee.