Editorial Board

Chief Editor
Dmitry Shmonin
Doctor of Sciences (Philosophy), Professor, Director of the Institute of Theology, St. Petersburg State University, Chairman of the Expert Council on Theology, Supreme Attestation Commission, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
orcid.org/0000-0002-5396-0027

Executive Editor
Roman Svetlov
Doctor of Sciences (Philosophy), Professor, Acting Head of the Department of Theology and Church History, Institute of Theology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
orcid.org/0000-0001-7767-1441

Editorial Board

Cyril Aslanov
Doctor of Sciences (Philosophy), Professor, Aix-Marseille University, France

Valentin Bazhanov
Doctor of Sciences (Philosophy), Professor, Head of the Department of Philosophy, Ulyanovsk State University, Ulyanovsk, Russian Federation
orcid.org/0000-0002-0336-9570

Tatiana Chelovenko
Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Theology, Religious Studies and Cultural Aspects of National Security, Orel State University named after I. S. Turgenev, Orel, Russia

Petr Dvořák
Doctor of Sciences (Philosophy), Head of the Department for the Study of Ancient and Medieval Thought, Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

José Ángel Garcia Cuadrado
Doctor of Sciences (Philosophy), Professor of the Ecclesiastical School of Philosophy, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
orcid.org/0000-0002-6881-5981

Ibragim Ibragimov
Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Institute of Translation and Multilingualism; Head of the Institute of State and Confessional Relations, Pyatigorsk State University, Pyatigorsk, Russia

Alexander Kirlezhev
Leading Editor of Research Periodicals at the Saints Cyril and Methodius Institute for Postgraduate Studies, Expert of the Synodal Biblical Theological Commission of the Russian Orthodox Church, Moscow, Russian Federation

Priest Sergiy Krivovichev
Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Candidate of Theology, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Kola Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Apatity, Russian Federation
orcid.org/0000-0001-8352-1394

Hegumen Serapion (Mit’ko)
Doctor of  Theology, Candidate of Sciences (Philosophy), Professor, Deputy Director of the Higher School of Law and Administration, HSE University, Deputy Chairman of the Synodal Missionary Department of the Russian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate, Cleric of the Belgorod Eparchy, Belgorod, Russian Federation

Evgeny Mochalov
Doctor of Sciences (Philosophy), Professor, Head of the Department of Philosophy, N. P. Ogarev Mordovia State University, Saransk, Russian Federation

Rafik Mukhametshin
Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor,  Rector of the Russian Islamic Institute, Kazan Islamic University, Chairman of the Council on Islamic Education, Editor-in-Chief of the international peer-reviewed scientific journal “Minbar. Islamic Studies”, full member (academician) of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan, Russian Federation

Mikhail Orlov 
Doctor of Sciences (Philosophy), Professor, Dean of  the Faculty of Philosophy, Saratov State University, Saratov, Russian Federation

James R. Russell 
Doctor of Sciences (Philosophy), Professor, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies, Emeritus, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Alexander Sizikov
Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Biblical Studies, Institute of Theology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
orcid.org/0000-0001-6096-2525

Vladimir Shokhin
Doctor of Sciences (Philosophy), Professor, Head of the Department of Philosophy of Religion, Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Honorary Doctor of the St Petersburg Theological Academy, Moscow, Russian Federation
orcid.org/0000-0002-2111-8740

Vladimir Shorokhov
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of Theology and Culture of Islam, Institute of Theology, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
orcid.org/0000-0002-0866-8529

Igor Tantlevskij
Ph.D., Doctor of Sciences (Philosophy), Professor, Chairman of the Department of Jewish Culture at the Saint Petersburg State University, Co-chairman of the Academic Board of the International Association for Jewish Studies and Culture, Director of the International Center for Biblical, Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the Saint Petersburg State University, Expert of the Russian Academy of Sciences,Member of the Expert Council of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Science and Education of the Russian Federation on Theologу, Member of the Expert Scientific Council for Education under the Chief Rabbi of Russia, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
orcid.org/0000-0002-8738-2456

Paul Weingartner 
Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

Board Secretary
Ekaterina Bobretsova

Editorial Council

Chairman
Nikolay Kropachev
Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Laws, Professor, Rector of St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

Editorial Council

Archpriest John Behr
Regius Chair in Humanity at the University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen (Scotland), Great Britain
orcid.org/0000-0001-8816-2386

Monsignor Francesco Braschi
Doctor in Theology and Patrology, Doctor of the Ambrosian Library of Milan and Director of the Slavistic Class of the Ambrosian Academy, Milano, Italy
orcid.org/0000-0002-9480-7205

Tatyana Chernigovskaya
Doctor of Biological Sciences, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Education, Head of the Institute for Cognitive Studies, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
orcid.org/0000-0002-6690-2627

Martin Illert
Professor, Superior Church Counsellor at the Evangelical Church

Archpriest Maxim Kozlov
Chairman of the Educational Committee of the Russian Orthodox Church, Rector of the Saints Cyril and Methodius Institute for Postgraduate Studies, Moscow, Russian Federation

Sergey Melnikov
Doctor of Law, Deputy Director of the Institute of Ethnography and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences for Research, Professor of the Department of Constitutional Law of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russian Federation 

Sheikh ul-Islam Allahshukur Pashazade
Doctor of History, Professor, Chairman of the Spiritual Board of Muslims of the Caucasus

Bishop Irenei Steenberg
Bishop of Sacramento, Dean of the Institute of Theological Sciences named after St. Cyril and Athanasius of Alexandria, member of the Scientific Committee of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

Galina Vdovina
Doctor of Sciences (Philosophy), Leading Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Chairman of the Expert Council on Theology, Supreme Attestation Commission, Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russian Federation
orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-4297

Anatoly Vylegzhanin
Deputy Head of the Office of the President of the Russian Federation for Domestic Policy

Bishop of Egoryevsk Methody (Stanislav Zinkovskiy)
Doctor of Theology, Rector of the Orthodox St. Tikhon's University for the Humanities, Chairman of the Synodal Biblical-Theological Commission and the Commission of the Inter-Council Presence of the Russian Orthodox Church on Theology and Theological Education, Professor of the Department of Theology and Church History of St. Petersburg State University, Moscow, Russian Federation
orcid.org/0000-0001-5221-544X