Bojidar Kolov

Bojidar Kolov is a member of the international research project ‘Values-Based Regime Legitimation in Russia’ at the University of Oslo, Norway. Recently, Kolov defended his doctoral dissertation on the contemporary political theology of the Russian Orthodox Church as part of this project. In addition to his PhD, he holds an MA in EU-Russia Studies from the University of Tartu in Estonia and a BA in Political Science from Sofia University in Bulgaria. Kolov also studied Theology at the Department of Eastern Christian Studies at the Stockholm School of Theology. His research focuses on church-state relations, religious nationalism, and postsecularism.