Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Research interests:

• didactics of religious education,
• values of education in schools more broadly, and issues related to cultural and religious diversity in schools from the perspective of both learners and teachers.

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Ilmar Tammisto peamiseks uurimisvaldkonnaks on varauusaegse Läänemere regiooni poliitiline ajalugu. Ta on uurinud rootsiaegse Liivimaa haldussüsteemi sisemist toimimist ja arenguid, milles põhirõhk on olnud
kohaliku aadliga seotud administratiivsetel ja sõjaväelistel institutsioonidel. Tema doktoriväitekiri keskendus Liivimaa valitsemisele aastatel 1634 kuni 1680, pöörates erilist tähelepanu Rootsi riigivõimu ja baltisaksa aadli kokkupuutepunktidele ja koostööle.

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Research interests:

• historical sociolinguistics
• cultural evolution
• digital humanities

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Topics of research and supervision

Philosophy of mind in general and in particular:

• Interpretivism in philosophy of mind
• Mental fictionalism
• Folk psychology and scientific study of the mind
• Experience of time and the metaphysics of time
• Understanding other people
• Free will 

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• Semiotics of space
• Semiotics of the city
• Sociosemiotics

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• Biosemiotics
• General semiotics
• Theoretical biology

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• Ecosemiotics
• Ecocriticism
• Mimicry
• Estonian nature writing

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• Semiotics of culture
• Semiotics of translation
• Semiotics of literature
• Cultural theories

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• Political semiotics
• Semiotic analysis of online communication
• Semiotics of culture
• Poststructuralist discourse theory

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• General and cultural semiotics
• Semiotics of verse,
• Rhetorics and poetics
• Analysis of film
• Text theory
• Russian literature

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• Semiotics of digital culture
• Semiotics of cultural education
• Cultural autocommunication
• Transmediality

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• History of semiotics
• Semiotics metalanguage
• Juri Lotman's cultural semiotics

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• Sociosemiotics
• Semiotics of space
• Subculture studies
• Semiotic language of description

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• Cultural semiotics and analysis of culture
• Semiotics of film and media semiotics

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• Cultural semiotics
• Transmedia
• Education of literature
• Digital education

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• Posthumanism
• Animal studies
• Zoosemiotics
• Philosophy of science

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• Urban ecosemiotics
• Jakob von Uexküll’s biosemiotics
• Human-non-human animal communication
• Semiotics of alien species

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• Political semiotics
• Semiotics of power
• Biopolitics

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• Semiotics of culture
• Political semiotics
• Media semiotics
• Processes of identification
• Online culture
• Conspiracy theories

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• Ecosemiotics
• Semiotic analysis of hybrid environments
• Zoobiology

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Topics of research and supervision

• Ethics
• Aesthetics
• Philosophy of education

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Research interests:

• history of theology in Estonia,
• methodology and historiography of church history,
• secularization,
• interconfessional relations combined with national(ist) ideas,
• Lutheran-Orthodox-Roman Catholic relations,
• Baltic German heritage in Estonian context.

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Research interests:

• patristic hermeneutics,
• Augustine, 
• history of creeds,
• Trinitarian theology.

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Research interests:

• Estonian, Baltic, and Scandinavian church history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,
• state-church relations,
• the history of Orthodox Churches in the Baltic states and in the Balkans,
• the relationship between nationalism and religion in Northern Europe,
• the ecumenical movement in the Baltic states and Scandinavia. 

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Research interests:

• history of the Orthodox Church in imperial Russia, inter-war Estonia, and the Soviet Union,
• history of the Old Believers and edinoverie,
• history of confessional pluralism and diversity,
• history of freedom of conscience and religious toleration,
• history of the Estonian Swedes.

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Research interests:

• sociological studies of religion in the contemporary Estonian Orthodox Church,
• conciliarity (sobornost) in the contemporary Estonian Orthodox Church.

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Research interests: 

• Orthodox church history and theology,
• history of the Russian Orthodox Church, particularly among Russia’s non-Slavic peoples in the imperial period,
• intercultural theology,
• interfaith dialogue,
• missiology,
• ecumenical relations.

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Research interests:

• Academic literature of Tartu University in the Early Modern Era,
• Neo-Latin language and rhetoric,
• Intellectual history and textual hermeneutics.

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Research interests:

• contemporary Orthodox theology
• political theology
• ecclesiology
• eco-theology
• theo-aesthetics
• philosophy of speculative realism

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Research interests:

• contemporary theology,
• science-and-religion,
• philosophies of religion and science,
• intercultural theology and interreligious studies,
• gender studies,
• theological anthropology. 

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Research interests:

• systematic and ecumenical theology,
• philosophy of religion,
• semiotics of religion. 

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Research interests:

• systematic theology,
• science-and-religion dialogue in general and the neuropsychology of religion and ritual behavior in particular,
• neuropsychological links between human sexuality and spirituality.

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Research interests:

• philosophy of science,
• religiosity in science,
• dialogue between science and religion,
• pragmaticist approach to reality.

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Research interests:

• Søren Kierkegaard studies,
• Philosophy and Theology of Education,
• Contemporary Theologies.

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Research interests:

• general, systematic and practical Christian theology, 
• connection between Christian theology and positive/existential psychology,
• Eastern and Western Christian asceticism and spirituality in modern application. 

Research interests:

• religiosity of Estonians in history and today,
• religious trends in the western cultural space in the 21st century. 

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Research interests:

• didactics of religious education,
• values of education in schools more broadly, and issues related to cultural and religious diversity in schools from the perspective of both learners and teachers.

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Research interests:

• practical theology,
• analysis of confirmation and sociological research on the Christian worldview,
• analysis of Christian worship and the process of liturgical renewal in the Lutheran Church.

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Research interests: 

• practical and systematic theology,
• Christian faith and practice in modern society,
• Lutheran identity and developments in Lutheran theology,
• different forms and factions of Christianity.

Research interests:

• New Religious Movements,
• Religious Change.

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Research interests:

• psychology of religion,
• pastoral psychology,
• psychology of interpersonal conflict and public speaking,
• psychology of pastoral counseling.

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• interpretation of the Early Christian texts from the perspective of cultural analysis,
• interaction of religion and society.

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Research interests:

• socio-historical and ideological research of the New Testament,
• Jewish literature of the late Second Temple period. 

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Research interests:

• form history of the Ancient Hebrew and West Semitic literature (wisdom, psalms, prophetic literature, narratives),
• history of traditions and religion of Ancient Israel in the first and second temple periods,
• exegesis, hermeneutics and theology of the Old Testament / Hebrew Bible,
• literary, form and reception history of the Book of Job.

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Research interests:

• Semitic philology,
• folkloristics,
• the comparative study of ancient narratives,
• the ideological and cultural aspects of ancient Near Eastern societies, 
• anthropology,
• evolutionary psychology,
• cognitive science of religion, which approaches he aspires to apply alongside with traditional philology in the study of historical texts,
• cognitive historiography.

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Research interests:

• history of Jewish ideas and identity and Jewish ethics,
• religion in modern-day Israel,
• history of Jewish ideas in 19th century,
• religious and cultural life of the Estonian Jewish community in the first half of the 20th century,
• reception history of the biblical book of Job in early rabbinic literature.

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Research interests:

• religious history of the ancient Near Eastern region,
• the early (pre-Hammurapi) Mesopotamian pantheon with a focus on the deities of magic and healing,
• parallels between the Old Testament and the ancient Near Eastern literatures,
• the religions and history of ancient and modern Iran. 

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Research interests:

• Semiotics of Abrahamic religions, with a focus on Judaism and Eastern Orthodox Christianity;
• modeling information dynamics within Jewish and other communities, considered as semiospheres; 
• Semiotics of Jewish identity, especially in terms of individual agency navigating within and among semiospheres;
• Juri Lotman and C.S. Peirce studies.

Research interests:

• semiotic analysis of Sumero-Akkadian literature and rituals,
• cognitive approaches to religious studies,
• the figure of the Sungod Utu/ Šamaš in Ancient Mesopotamia.

Research interests:

• hasidism.

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• Religious history of the Roman empire,
• so called oriental cults in the Roman empire,
• cult of Mithras,
• gnosticism.

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Research interests:

• intellectual history and sociology of religion,
• Soviet antireligious policy and atheist propaganda,
• secularization,
• historical and contemporary forms of religion and nonreligiosity,
• changes in the religious landscape,
• and the junctions of (non)religion and nationalism, and (non)religion and nature.

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Research interests:

• historical and present-day context of Islam,
• the diversity problems in Islamic countries,
• Islamophobia in Estonia.

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Research interests:

• religious concepts of the human body,
• the relations between verbal and physical expressions of religiosity, and areas of cultural contact. This may involve historical contacts between people with different religious backgrounds, as well as overlapping of vernacular and literary cultures in texts and practices, which offer different perspectives for viewing the world.

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Research interests:

• Method and Theory in the Study of Religion,
• Evolutionary and Cognitive Sciences of Religion,
• Intellectual history of Social, Cultural and Religious Evolutionism,
• History of the Study of Religion.