Religious Studies: Eugene Clay

Professor of Religious Studies
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Arrived at ASU: 1993
Office: ECA 322
Phone: (480) 965-1982
E-mail: clay@asu.edu
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Research Interests

Religion in Russia and Eastern Europe, Orthodox Christianity, sectarianism, apocalypticism, monasticism.

Biography

BA., M.A., and PhD, University of Chicago (thesis adviser Richard Hellie). He has taught at Colorado College and Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.

Courses Taught

REL 201 - Religion and the Modern World
REL 270 - Introduction to Christianity
REL 371 - New Testament
REL 372 - Formation of the Christian Tradition
REL 377 - Religion in Russia
REL 379 - Religion, Nationalism, and Ethnic Conflict
REL 501 - Research Methods
REL 591 - Conversion
REL 591 - Religion, Nationalism, and Ethnic Conflict

Selected Publications

“Priestly Old Belief in Saratov Province: Nikolai Pozdnev and the Creation of an Old Believer Hierarchy in 1923,” In Russia's Dissident Old Believers. Ed. by Robert Nichols and Georg Michels. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Forthcoming.

“Orthodox Missionaries and ‘Orthodox Heretics,’ 1886-1917” in Of Religion and Empire: Missions, Conversion, and Tolerance in Tsarist Russia. Ed. by Michael Khodarkovsky and Robert Geraci. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2001.

“An Old Believer Monastery on the Volga: The Cheremshan Monastic Complex, 1820-1925,” Slavonica 7:2 (2001): 8-27.

"The Church of the Transfiguring Theotokos." Nova Religio 3, no. 2 (April 2000): 320-49.

"Apocalypticism in the Russian Borderlands: Inochentie Levizor and his Moldovan Followers." Religion, State and Society 26, no. 3/4 (1998): 252-63.

"Russian Israel." Communal Societies. 18 (1998): 81-91.

"Apocalypticism in Eastern Europe." In The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism Vol. 3: Apocalypticism in the Modern Period and the Contemporary Age. Ed. Stephen J. Stein. New York: Continuum, 1998. Pp. 293-321.