SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

Breitbarth, Anne, Lucas, Christopher and Willis, David (2020) The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. Volume II: Patterns and Processes. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics Series, v.40)

Book Chapters

Stoyanov, Yuri (2021) 'The Adoption of the Swedish Rite in Eighteenth-Century Russia – Acculturation, Power Politics and Mysticism.' In: Hartley, Janet M. and Shaw, Denis J. B., (eds.), Magic, texts and travels: homage to a scholar, Will Ryan. London: Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia, pp. 79-99.

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 (2012) 'The Interchange between Religious Heterodoxies in the Balkans and Caucasus: The Case of the Paulicians.' In: Biliarsky, Ivan, Oroveanu, Anca and Cristea, Ovidiu, (eds.), The Balkans and Caucasus: Parallel Processes on the Opposite Sides of the Black Sea. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 106-116.

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 (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 (2018) 'Subverting Scripture by Parascriptural Works in Medieval Eastern and Western Christian Dualism.' In: Blidstein, Moshe, Ruzer, Serge and Stökl Ben Ezra, Daniel, (eds.), Scriptures, Sacred Traditions, and Strategies of Religious Subversion. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, pp. 203-217. (Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum / Studies and Texts in Antiquity and Christianity 112)

Journal Article

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

Stoyanov, Yuri (2010) 'Early and recent formulations of theories for a formative Christian heterodox impact on Alevism.' British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 37 (3). pp. 261-272.

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.