Mikhail Sergeev
Adjunct Professor, Program of Critical Studies, University of the Arts, PA, USA
Email
msergeev@uarts.edu
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Research interests
Primary academic affiliation
Awards
msergeev@uarts.edu
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Research interests
- Bahá’í Philosophy / Theology
- Russian Religious Thought
- Religion and the Arts
Primary academic affiliation
- Ph.D. in philosophy of religion, Temple University, Philadelphia
- Adjunct Professor, Affiliate Professor
- Adjunct Professor, Program of Critical Studies, University of the Arts, PA, USA
- Affiliated Professor, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities (UTS) in New Brighton, Minnesota, USA
- Faculty in-residence, Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA
- Coordinator of the Department of Religion, Philosophy, and Theology, The Wilmette Institute
Awards
- The President’s Distinguished Teaching Award, University of the Arts, 2010
- 1993-97 Doctor of Philosophy in Religious Studies, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, US
- 1991-93 Master of Arts in Religious Studies, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
- 1977-82 Bachelor of Arts in International Journalism, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University), Russia (USSR)
- 2017-21 Chair of the Department of Religion, Philosophy, and Theology at the Wilmette Institute, USA
- 2016-19 Scientific editor of the book series "Contemporary Russian Philosophy," at Brill Publishers, The Netherlands
- 1993-2016 taught at a number of colleges and universities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Main monographs
Main papers
- The Crucifixion in Painting: From the Middle Ages to Post-Modernism, with a Foreword by Rev. Michael Aksionov-Meerson, Ph.D., containing fifty-five color illustrations, Boston, MA: M-Graphics, 2023
- Religion and Science in the Globalized World. A Collective Monograph, (GFBS Vol. 4), ed. with an Introduction by Mikhail Sergeev, Boston, MA: M-Graphics, 2022
- Studies in Bahá’í Epistemology: Essays and Commentaries (GFBS, Vol. 3), ed. with an Introduction by Mikhail Sergeev, Boston, MA: M-Graphics, 2021
- Russian Philosophy in the Twentieth-First Century: An Anthology, eds. M. Sergeev, A. Chumakov, M. Theis with a Preface by Alyssa DeBlasio, Leiden – Boston: Brill | Rodopi, 2020
- Studies in Bahá’í Philosophy: Selected Articles, ed. with an Introduction by Mikhail Sergeev, Boston, MA: M-Graphics, 2018
- Theory of Religious Cycles: Tradition, Modernity, and the Bahá’í Faith, Leiden – Boston: Brill | Rodopi, 2015
- Sophiology in Russian Orthodoxy: Solov’ev, Bulgakov, Losskii, Berdiaev, The Edwin Mellen Press, 2006
Main papers
- "Twentieth-Century Modern Art: Evolution and Main Trends,” in The Culturology Ideas: Research Works’ Collection, (23)2023, Kyiv, Ukraine, pp. 95-100
- “Religion in the Globalized World. Philosophical Reflections,” in Philosophical Aspects of Globalization: A Multidisciplinary Inquiry, ed. Alexander N. Chumakov, Alyssa DeBlasio, Ilya V. Ilyin in collaboration with Ivan A. Aleshkovski and Mikhail Y. Sergeev, Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2022, pp. 402–17
- “Overview: [Baha’i] Theology and Philosophy” in The World of the Bahá’í Faith, ed. Robert Stockman, London - New York: Routledge 2022, pp. 159–74
- “Progress of the Soul: Life After Death” by M Sergeev, in The World of the Bahá’í Faith, ed. Robert Stockman, London - New York: Routledge 2022, pp. 269 – 81
- “Theory of religious cycles and its application to interreligious dialogue and trans-religious theology.” Annales Scientia Politica, Vol. 9, No. 1 (2020), Slovakia, pp. 7–17
- ""The model of a religious cycle: theory and application,"" SENTENTIA. European Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. № 3, 2017, pp. 71-92
- “Reflections of the Epistemological Views of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá,” The Journal of Bahá’í Studies, Vol. 22, number 1/4, March-December 2012, pp. 89-104
- “Crucifixion in Twentieth-Century Painting,” Transactions of the Association of Russian-American Scholars in the U.S.A., vol. XXXVII, New York, 2011-2012, pp. 395-416
- “Losskii, Nikolai Onufrievich,” Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Donald M. Borchert, 2nd ed., Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006, vol. 5, pp. 576-78
- “Zen’kovskii, Vasilii Vasil’evich,” Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Donald M. Borchert, 2nd ed., Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006, vol. 9, pp. 867-69
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