Riazanova
Elvina F.
PhD in History
Scientific Interests
Anthropology of education, religious conversion, Muslim communities, New Muslims, Islam in Germany, folk Art.
Education
February, 2022 Ph.D. in History, Lomonosov Moscow State University. PhD thesis is «Muslim immigrants of the 2nd and 3rd generation and German Muslims in Germany: Religious Identity and Practices. A Comparative Analysis Experience».
2016–2019 Anthropology (Postgraduate in Historical sciences and Archeology), Lomonosov Moscow State University.
2012–2014 M.A. degree in International Relations, Saint-Petersburg State University.
2007–2012 Specialist level (Qualification Arts Historian), Saint-Petersburg State University.
2013, The Spring Semester, University of Hamburg (Hamburg Germany), International Relations (MA).
2016, October – The Educational trip. «Perspectives on a common European culture of remembrance» for historians and journalists. (German Foreign Ministry) Minsk, Kreisau, Wroslaw, Dresden, Berlin.
2017-2018 – The Fall Semester – University of Rostock (Germany), Theological Department.
Main publications:
- Riazanova E.F. 2023. New Muslims in Germany. Who are they? Sadra Press.
- Riazanova, E. F. 2024. The values and everyday life of high school students in a Bashkir boarding gymnasium. Herald of Anthropology (Vestnik Antropologii). 3: 180-186.
- Riazanova E.F. 2023. Continuing Education with Ethno-cultural Component. Narratives on the Preservation of Folk Traditions and Culture by Villagers of Bashkortostan. Herald of Anthropology (Vestnik Antropologii). 4: 122-130.
- Riazanova, E. F. 2023. What Can the Gates in the Villages of Bashkiria Tell About? Gate Decoration as an Act of Expressing Personal Identity. Herald of Anthropology (Vestnik Antropologii). 2: 112–123.
- Riazanova, E. F. 2022. A New Religious Practice of the Muslim “Ad-vent Calendar” Among the German Muslims in Modern Germany. Herald of Anthropology (Vestnik Antropologii). 4:72–82.
- Riazanova E. Features of the religious practices of the German-Muslims women in modern Germany (on the example of the land of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and of the Hamburg) // Vestnik YArGU im. P. G. Demidova. Seriya: Gumanitarnye nauki. 2019. № 4. P. 40-43.
- Riazanova E. A study of Muslims society in Germany by Russian scientists in 21 century: problems and approaches // Istoricheskaya i social'no-obrazovatel'naya mysl'. Tom12 №1, 2020. С. 73- 81.
- Riazanova E. Change of food culture and traditions of Muslim Germans after religious conversion // Chelovek i kul'tura. 2020. № 3. С. 94 - 103.
- Riazanova E. The factors behind the adoption of Islam by Germans: The experience of an ethno-confessional research // Istoricheskij zhurnal: nauchnye issledovaniya. 2019. №2. С. 21-28.
- Riazanova E. Priorities of Muslim youth with regards to spending spare time in modern Germany // CHelovek i kul'tura. 2020. №5. С. 45-53.