Paper: "Secularising Effects of Sectarianism: The Case of the Armenian Church in the Middle East During the Cold War Era" at Rethinking Nationalism, Sectarianism and Ethno-Religious Mobilisation in the Middle East, convened by Dr Alex Henley, Dr Ceren Lord, Dr Hiroko Miyokawaunder, under the auspices of Pembroke College, the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, the Middle East Centre at St Antony’s College, and The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH), 27 February 2018.
Historic Ordination of a Deaconess in the Tehran Diocese of the Armenian Church
Hratch Tchilingirian | CivilNet.am 12 January 2018 [updated 20.06.2019]
The Primate of the Diocese of Tehran ordained a young woman as a deaconess in Tehran’s St. Sarkis Mother Church on September 25, 2017. Even as the office of deaconess had existed in Armenian Church convents for centuries, this was a historic first. It is the first time that a lay woman, not a nun, was ordained a “parish deacon”
Historic Ordination of a Deaconess in the Tehran Diocese of the Armenian Church
Hratch Tchilingirian | 12 January 2018
The Primate of the Diocese of Tehran ordained a young woman as a deaconess in Tehran’s St. Sarkis Mother Church on September 25, 2017. Even as the office of deaconess had existed in Armenian Church convents for centuries, this was a historic first. It is the first time that a lay woman, not a nun, was was ordained a “parish deacon.”
In recent years a new discourse on “global Armenians” is increasingly becoming part of an effort of constructing a post-Genocide Armenian identity in the Diaspora — and Armenia. These new identity shapers seem to advocate a transition from “survival mentality” to celebration of life and success. One definition was provided in a full-page letter
... plight of minorities and Christian communities in the MiddleEast, especially in academic and policy-making circles. Following his PhD at the London School of Economics, he was director of research on ...
... in Egypt and the MiddleEast, organized by Centre of World Christianity, Department of Religion and Philosophies, SOAS, University of London.
8 July 2017, School of Oriental and African Studies
Programme ...
... of minorities and Christian communities in the MiddleEast, especially in academic and policy-making circles. As a public intellectual, his research, thinking and projects aim to make heritage identity, ...
Lecture: “Wars, religious extremism and future challenges facing Eastern Christianity in the Middle East”, organised by Aurora Humanitarian Initiative and Yerevan State University.
Լecture: “Religious Extremism, military conflicts and Christian communities in the Middle East Today”, American University of Armenia (AUA), College of Humanities & Social Sciences (CHSS).
... on inter‐ethnic conflicts, diasporas, the MiddleEast, and the Caucasus. He has published extensively and lectures widely in Europe, the US, and the MiddleEast (www.hratch.info).
Founded in 1991, the ...
«Կրոնական ծայրահեղականություն, ռազմական հիմնախնդիրներ եւ Մերձավոր Արեւելքի Քրիստոնյայ համայնքները», Արցախի պետական համալսարան / Artsakh State University
Lecture: “A 15th century ‘Curriculum for Educating Infants’ in the Armenian Church”, Eastern Christianity Lecture Series convened by the Oxford Armenian Studies, The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford
On Thursday February 23rd, the Youth Association for a Greater Europe and the LSESU European Society invited students and public for a panel discussion on 'European Identity in the Times of Post-Truth Politics' at the LSE. Our speakers – Roger Casale, founder of New Europeans and former MP for Wimbledon, and Dr Hratch Tchilingirian, member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies
Since the establishment of the Turkish Republic, state discrimination against the Armenian community—and generally the non-Muslim minorities—has been institutionalized and systematically used towards the detriment of the target community. This article provides a discussion of these issues and the processes of state and societal ‘othering’ of the Armenians in Turkey, with a particular focus on the impact of such policies and public discourses on the current situation of the community. It then provides an analysis of the internal dynamics of the Armenian community itself. The discussion highlights several sociological concepts that are useful to the understanding and analysis of the Turkish state’s and society’s treatment of the Armenians in Turkey today—or what the economists would call the stresses and distortions in the system.