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Last published:

Janelidze, Barbare (2023): "Contested secularity: religion, nation and sexuality in Georgia", Wiesbaden: Springer VS/Veröffentlichungen der Sektion Religionssoziologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie.

Since 10/2022: Coordinator of Internationalization Measures, Department of Social Sciences, University of Kassel, DE.
2022: Promotion award for particularly outstanding dissertation in the Department of Social Sciences, University of Kassel.
12/2021: Doctorate at the University of Kassel (Dr. Phil.), Sociology.
Since 04/2020: Teacher for special tasks, Department of Social Sciences, Department of Microsociology, University of Kassel, DE.
10/2017-09/2019: Lecturer for special tasks, Department of Social Sciences, Department of Macrosociology, University of Kassel, DE
03/2017-07/2017: Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Ilia State University, GEO.
04/2016-07/2016: Lecturer, Department of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology, University of Kassel, DE  
07/2014-03/2016: Project Coordinator, Institute of Social and Cultural Research, Ilia State University, GEO.
2013 - 2016: Organization of winter and summer schools in philosophy and social sciences. Project Leading Institution: Ilia State University, Georgia with participation of various other Georgian universities, in winter and summer 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016.
09/2013-07/2014: Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Ilia State University, GEO.  
12/2012-12/2014: Assistant to the editor of the journal "Identity Studies in the Caucasus and the Black Sea Region" at Ilia State University, GEO.  
07/2011-06/2014: Researcher in the international research project "Religion, Nation and Democracy in the South Caucasus".

Monographs:

Janelidze, Barbare (2023): Contested secularity: religion, nation and sexuality in Georgia, Wiesbaden: Springer VS/Veröffentlichungen der Sektion Religionssoziologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie.

 

Journal articles:

Janelidze, Barbare (2024): 'Where was I then and where am I now!': contesting sexualities, secularity, and the self in Georgia (double-blind peer reviewed). Religion, State and Society, 52 (5), 500-516. https://doi.org/10.1080/09637494.2024.2429941

 

Janelidze, Barbare (2016): Religion, Politics and Modernity in Georgia: The Case of May 17th, 2013(peer reviewed). In: State, Religion and Church in Russia and Worldwide / Gosudarstvo, religiia, tserkov' v Rossii i za rubezhom, 34 (2): 92-106.

 

Articles in edited volumes:

Janelidze, Barbare (2024): The right-wing populist turn, the Orthodox Church and sexuality in Georgia. In: Annette Schnabel, Heidemarie Winkel, Kornelia Sammet, Alexander Yendell (eds.), Religionsanalyse und Theorieentwicklung: Beiträge zur 25. Jahrestagung der Sektion Religionssoziologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, Wiesbaden: Springer VS/Veröffentlichungen der Sektion Religionssoziologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie, 115-132.

 

Janelidze, Barbare (2023): "A Christian, tolerant and European nation"-Narratives of belonging in Georgia. In: Paula-Irene Villa (ed.) 2023: Polarized Worlds. Proceedings of the 41st Congress of the German Sociological Association 2022. https://publikationen.soziologie.de/index.php/kongressband_2022/article/view/1745

 

Janelidze, Barbare (2018): The 'progressive' and the 'backward': The Controversy over Religion and Secularity in the Georgian Public Sphere. In: Luka Nakhutsrishvili and Heinrich Böll Foundation (eds.), Georgia, spelled anew. Politik und Kultur eines Landes auf dem Weg nach Europa,Bielefeld: transcript, 183-195.

 

Janelidze, Barbare (2017): May 17th: Secularism, Religion and the Public Sphere [17 Maisi: Sekularismi, Religia da Sajaro Sivrtse]. In: Tamta Mikeladze (Ed.), Queer Politics: Europeanization, Local context, and Obstacles to Activism. Tbilisi: EMC, 136-164.

 

Janelidze, Barbare (2017): Religious Minorities, the Christian Orthodox Church and the State: Re-thinking Processes of Secularization and Modernization in Post-Soviet Georgia(peer reviewed). In: Andrea Friedli, Gohard-Radenkovic Aline and Ruegg Francois (Eds.). Nation-building and Identities in Post-Soviet Societies. New Challenges for Social Sciences. Freiburger Sozialanthropologische Studien/Freiburg Studies in Social Anthropology/ Etudes d'Anthropologie Sociale de l'Université de Fribourg. Vol. 47. Vienna: LIT Verlag, 95-112.

 

Janelidze, Barbare (2015): Secularization and De-secularization in Georgia: State and Church during Saakashvili Government (2003-2012)(peer-reviewed). In: Alexander Agadjanian, Joedicke Ansgar and Evert van der Zweerde (Eds.), Religion, Nation and Democracy in the South-Caucasus. New York: Routledge, 63-81. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315776804

 

Janelidze, Barbare (2014): Secularization, Invisible Religion or Market Model? How to study the Georgian Case [Sekularizatsia, Ukhilavi Religia tu Sabazro Modeli? Rogor Shevistsavlot Sakartvelos Shemtkhveva].In: Mamuka Beriashvili and Johannes Weiss (Eds.): Religiosity and Freedom of Religion,Meridiani, Tbilisi.

 

Research reports:

Barkaia, Maia and Barbare Janelidze (2018): Under the Security Gaze: History, Politics and Religion in the Pankisi Gorge, Tbilisi: EMC. https://socialjustice.org.ge/en/products/usafrtkhoebis-mzeris-kvesh-istoria-politika-da-religia-pankisis-kheobashi

 

Contributions to online platforms:

Janelidze, Barbare and Luka Nakhutsrishvili (2020): The Plague [Zhami]: Parts I, II, III, (online). Available at: https://socialjustice.org.ge/ka/products/zhami-natsili-pirveli-sagangebo-mdgomareoba.

  • Gender studies and queer/feminist theory
  • Cultural and postcolonial studies
  • cultural sociology
  • Sociology of religion
  • Theories of the state and nationalism
  • Qualitative research methods
  • Post-Soviet space

Courses

 

Completed courses (selection)

Summer semester 2024

  • Ethnography of Borders, Part 2 (BA module: Empirical Practical Course, Sociology)
  • Bachelor colloquium

Winter semester 2023/24:

  • Ethnography of Borders, Part 1 (BA module: Empirical Practical Course, Sociology)

Summer semester 2023:

  • The Struggle for the Public Sphere: Sexualities in the Post-Soviet Space (BA module: Specialization / Certificate Program Interdisciplinary Women's and Gender Studies)

Winter semester 2022/23:

  • Bachelor colloquium

Summer semester 2022:

  • (Auto-)Ethnography (BA module: specialization)
  • Religion, Sexuality and the Public Sphere (BA module: advanced)
  • The Great Transformation: Modalities of Belonging in the Post-Soviet Space (BA Module: Advanced)
  • Lecture series: The long duration of Russian imperialism (interdisciplinary)

Winter semester 2021/22:

  • Religion and Secularity from a Postcolonial Perspective (BA Module Structure: Interaction and Social Structure)

Summer semester 2021:

  • A Secular Age (reading seminar) (BA module Advanced Studies)
  • Conflicts of Boundaries: Religion in the Public Sphere, Part 2 (BA module Empirical Practical Course, Research Project Seminar)

 

Winter semester 2020/21:

  • Propaedeutic course: Introduction to sociological work (BA module What is sociology?)
  • Boundary conflicts: Religion in the public sphere, part 1 (BA module Empirical Practical Course)

Summer semester 2020:

  • Nation and nationalism: the sociological approach (BA module Structure: Interaction and Social Structure)

Summer semester 2019:

  • Fundamentals of the Sociology of Religion (BA module Structure: Interaction and Social Structure)
  • Qualitative research on religions in modern societies, part 2 (BA module Empirical Practical Course)

Winter semester 2018/19:

  • Qualitative research on religion in modern societies, part 1 (BA module Empirical Practical Course, part I)

Summer semester 2018:

  • Religiosity and Rituals - Anthropological and Ethnographic Studies of Individualized Religious Acts, Part 2 (BA Module Empirical Practical Course)

 

WS 2017/18:

  • Secularization Theory and Its Critics (MA module Social Theory and Social Change)
  • Religiosity and Rituals - Anthropological and Ethnographic Studies of Individualized Religious Actions, Part I (BA Module Empirical Practical Course)