Christian Churches in European Integration (PDF)

Sergei A. Mudrov, is currently Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, New Europe college, Bucharest, Romania. He was educated in Belarus (Diploma from the Belarusian State University and BTh from the Minsk Theological Seminary), Netherlands (MA from the University of Maastricht) and the UK (MA from the University of Warwick and PhD from the University of Salford). S.A. Mudrov worked in Belarus in NGOs, print media and in academia, initially as an Assistant Professor, and from 2014 as an Associate Professor at Baranovichi State University. He was a visiting researcher at the Institute for European Integration of Europa-Kolleg, Hamburg (Germany), Institute of Political Science and Governance of the University of Tallinn (Estonia), and the University of Dundee (UK). His book Pravoslavie v Evrope: svidetelstva nashikh dnei [Orthodox Christianity in Europe: testimonies of our days] was published in Minsk in 2013. His articles appeared in Journal for Contemporary European Research, Journal of Religion in Europe, Journal of Church and State, The Review of Faith and International Affairs, Journal of Contemporary Religion and in a number of journals in Belarus, Russia and Poland. S.A. Mudrov's research interests are in the area of Church-State relations, religion in European integration/EU politics, migration and the Orthodox Church.