Religious Studies: Agnes Kefeli-Clay

Professor of Religious Studies
Ph.D., Arizona State University
Arrived at ASU: 1995

Office: ECA 338
Phone: (480) 965-7145
E-mail: kefeli@asu.edu
CV: (PDF)

Research Interests

Islam in Russia and Central Asia.

Biography

Agnes Kefeli-Clay (Ph.D. ASU, 2001) has written extensively on the relationship between Christianity and Islam in Russia from the sixteenth century to the present.

Courses Taught

REL 100 - Religions of the World
REL 310 - Western Religious Traditions
REL 365 - Islamic Civilization
REL 366 - Islam in the Modern World

Selected Publications

"L'islam populaire chez les Tatars chrétiens orthodoxes au XIXe siècle” in Cahiers du monde russe 37, no. 4 (1996).

"The Role of Tatar and Kriashen Women in the Transmission of Islamic Knowledge (1800-1870)" in Of Religion and Empire: Missions, Conversion, and Tolerance in Tsarist Russia. Edited by Michael Khodarkovsky and Robert Geraci. New York: Cornell University Press, 2001, pp. 250-273.

"Constructing an Islamic Identity: The Case of Elyshevo Village in the Nineteenth Century" in Russia's Orient: Imperial Borderlands and Peoples, 1700-1917. Edited by Daniel Brower and Edward Lazzerini. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1997, pp. 271-91.