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Authored Books

Hezser, Catherine (1990) Lohnmetaphorik und Arbeitswelt. Das Gleichnis von den Arbeitern im Weinberg (Mt. 20:1-16) im Rahmen rabbinischer Lohngleichnisse. Goettingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht. (Novum Testamentum et Orbis Antiquus; v.15)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2011) Defenders and Enemies of the True Cross: The Sasanian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614 and Byzantine Ideology of Anti-Persian Warfare. Vienna, Austria: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. (Sitzungsberichte der phil.-hist. Klasse 819; Veröffentlichungen zur Iranistik 61)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2000) The Other God: Dualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar Heresy. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. (Nota Bene)

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Sims-Williams, Nicholas, ed. (2007) Part 4: Dictionary of Manichaean texts in Chinese. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols. (Dictionary of manichaean texts. Vol. III, Texts from Central Asia and China)

Book Chapters

Abdelnour, Mohammed Gamal (2018) 'Muhammad abu Zahra’s muslim Theology of Religions.' In: Walters, James, (ed.), Religious Imaginations: How Narratives of Faith are shaping Today's World. London: Gingko, pp. 101-114.

Hamzić, Vanja (2018) 'A Renaissance Interrupted? Debating Personhood through a Sexual Act in the Twelfth-Century Christianate and Islamicate Worlds.' In: Schmidtke, Sabine, (ed.), Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935-2018. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, pp. 308-321.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2014) 'Apocalypticizing Warfare: From political theology to imperial eschatology in seventh-to early eighth-century Byzantium.' In: La Porta, Sergio and Bardakjian, Kevork, (eds.), The Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition. A Comparative Perspective. Leiden: Brill, pp. 379-433. (Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha, Volume: 25)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2014) 'Eastern Orthodox Christianity: Religion, War and Ethics.' In: Reichberg, Gregory M. and Syse, Henrik, (eds.), Religion, War, and Ethics A Sourcebook of Textual Traditions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 164-234.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2018) 'Esotericism and Visionary Mysticism in Medieval Byzantine and Slavonic Orthodox Pseudepigraphic and Heretical Literature.' In: Radulović, N., (ed.), Esotericism, Literature and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe. Belgrade: University of Belgrade, pp. 13-29. (CEENASWE 2)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2016) 'Gnosis and “Gnosticism” in Alevi and Bektāşī Syncretism. Disputed Origins and New Directions for Research.' In: Amir-Moezzi, Mohammad Ali, De Cillis, Maria, De Smet, Daniel and Mir-Kasimov, Orkhan, (eds.), L'Ésotérisme shi'ite, ses racines et ses prolongements Shi'i Esotericism: Its Roots and Developments. Turnhout, Belgium: Belgium, pp. 723-742. (Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Religieuses, vol. 177)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2019) 'Modern and post-secular Alevi and Bektaşi religiosities and the Slavo-Turkic heretical imaginary.' In: Sosnowska, Danuta and Drzewiecka, Ewelina, (eds.), The Experience of Faith in Slavic Cultures and Literatures in the Context of Postsecular Thought. Warsaw: The University of Warsaw Press, pp. 129-144.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2009) 'Norms of War in Eastern Orthodox Christianity.' In: Popovski, Vesselin, Reichberg, Gregory M. and Turner, Nicholas, (eds.), World Religions and Norms of War. Tokyo: United Nations University Press, pp. 166-220.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2013) 'Question of the Existence of Dualist Layers in Alevi/Bektāşī Syncretism and their Central Asian, Anatolian or Balkan Provenance.' In: Pries, Andreas H., Martzolff, Laetitia, Ambos, Claus and Langer, Robert, (eds.), Rituale als Ausdruck von Kulturkontakt: ‚Synkretismus‘ zwischen Negation und Neudefinition. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 131-151. (Studies in Oriental Religions (67))

Stoyanov, Yuri (2015) 'Religious Dualism and the Abrahamic Religions.' In: Silverstein, Adam J. and Stroumsa, Guy G., (eds.), Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 405-425. (Oxford Handbooks)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2020) 'The Sacred Spaces and Sites of the Mediterranean in Contemporary Theological, Anthropological and Sociological Approaches and Debates.' In: Ferrari, Silvio and Benzo, Andrea, (eds.), Between Cultural Diversity and Common Heritage. Legal and Religious Perspectives on the Sacred Places of the Mediterranean. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, pp. 25-36. (Cultural Diversity and Law)

Stoyanov, Yuri (2017) 'St. Constantine-Cyril's Mission to the Abbasid Court and Eastern Orthodox Ideology of Warfare.' In: Panov, Mitko B., (ed.), The Byzantine Missionary Activity and Its Legacy in Europe. Skopje, North Macedonia: Euro-Balkan University, pp. 19-28.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2019) 'The role of religious institutions: Peace in Eastern Orthodoxy.' In: Kulnazarova, Aigul and Popovski, Vesselin, (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Global Approaches to Peace. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 461-476. (Palgrave Handbooks)

Journal Article

Abdelnour, Mohammed Gamal (2017) 'If one faith is true, does this mean all others are false?' Interreligious Insight, 15 (2). pp. 6-13.

O'Donnell, S. Jonathon (2018) 'Unipolar Dispensations: Exceptionalism, Empire, and the End of One America.' Political Theology, 20 (1). pp. 66-84.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2018) 'The Debate on Medieval Western Christian Dualism through the Prism of Slavonic Pseudepigrapha.' Scrinium, 14 (1). pp. 334-350.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2024) 'Eastern Orthodox War Justification and Ecclesial Dilemmas Arising from the War in Ukraine.' Studies in World Christianity, 30 (2). pp. 230-248.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2001) 'Islamic and Christian heterodox water cosmogonies from the Ottoman period-parallels and contrasts.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 64 (1). pp. 19-33.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2013) 'Medieval Christian Dualist Perceptions and Conceptions of Biblical Paradise.' Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe, 3. pp. 149-166.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2018) 'Religious Syncretism and Cultural Pluralism along the Central and East Asian Silk Road – New Discoveries and Venues for Research.' The Silk Road, Fourth Conference on Chinese Studies, 4. pp. 291-300.

Stoyanov, Yuri (2024) 'The War in Ukraine: Challenges to Just War Doctrines in Eastern Orthodoxy.' Studies in Christian Ethics, 37 (3). pp. 669-692.