Ruslan Khalikov
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Ruslan Khalikov
Ph.D. in Philosophy, philosopher and religious scholar

Ph.D. in Philosophy, member of the Board of the Ukrainian Association of Religious Studies.

Research interests: Western esotericism, counter-secular religiosity, traditionalism, new religious movements, church-state relations in Ukraine and the world.

Active public figure, author of books and founder of a publishing house of books on religious studies and Western esotericism.

He graduated from the State University of Informatics and Artificial Intelligence. Later, he worked there as a lecturer in philosophy and religious studies at the State University of Informatics and Artificial Intelligence, Donetsk National Technical University, and Ternopil Volodymyr Hnatiuk National Pedagogical University.

He is a member of professional religious studies organizations.

In 2016-2020, he headed the NGO Workshop of Academic Religious Studies and is currently the head of the Religion on Fire project implemented by this NGO.

Since 2017, he has been a member of the Board of the Ukrainian Association of Religious Studies.

In 2017, he organized his own publishing house, which is mainly engaged in publishing books on religious studies and Western esotericism. He is the author of the books Rebellion Against the Secular World and A Short Guide to the Occult Tarot. Among his publishing projects is the almanac Tradition and Traditionalism, which was published at various intervals from 2011 to 2020.

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