About the person
Tornike Metreveli is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Christianity, Nationalism, and Populism at Lund University. Tornike received his doctorate in sociology (magna cum laude) from the University of Bern (2017), where he worked under Professor Christian Joppke’s supervision. Before joining St. Gallen, where he taught numerous courses and held an International Postdoctoral Fellowship between 2017-2020, Tornike was a Swiss National Science Foundation Mobility fellow at Harvard University. Dr. Metreveli’s research focuses on nationalism studies and the sociology of Orthodox Christianity.
Research projects
Dr. Metreveli is a Principal Investigator of the GCE project “Coronavirus: A New Test(ament) of Orthodox Christianity,” which examines the responses of Orthodox churches to the global pandemic. Tornike is a Team Lead in GCE’s project “Territoriality of the Georgian Orthodox Church” in collaboration with the INDIGO fund.
Selected Publications
On how churches involved in and influenced political transition in Ukraine, Serbia, and Georgia, see a new book Orthodox Christianity and the Politics of Transition
On the geopolitical reasoning of the Georgian Orthodox Church, see a co-authored article, Spiritual geopolitics of Georgia’s territorial integrity
On the counterintuitive angle of church-state relations in the post-revolutionary Georgia, see An undisclosed story of roses: church, state, and nation in contemporary Georgia
On how (lyric) poetry rather than prose (novel) constituted the agency of common national imagining in Tsarist Russia, see Rhyming the National Spirit: A Comparative Inquiry into the Works and Activities of Taras Shevchenko and Ilia Chavchavadze