PhD in Philosophy
Research fellow at the “Sociology of Religion” Research Laboratory
Senior Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of St.Tikhon’s Orthodox University
Research fellow at the “Sociology of Religion” Research Laboratory
Senior Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of St.Tikhon’s Orthodox University
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Education
- 2022 – Candidate of Sciences (PhD) in Philosophy: Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- 2003-2010 – Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Postgraduate program
- 2002-2003 – Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences (Joint program with the University of Manchester), M.A. in Sociology
- 1997-2002 – Higher School of Economics, Specialist in Sociology
Academic interests
- Quantitative methods of data collection and analysis in sociology
- Quantitative empirical research in sociology of religion
- Religiosity measurement in empirical research
- Social Network Analysis
- Research in social work of religious organizations
- Religiosity and social capital
- Religiosity and human values
In foreign languages
Ackert, Michael, Prutskova Elena, Zabaev Ivan. 2020. "Validation of the Short Forms of Centrality of Religiosity Scale in Russia." Religions, 11 (11): 1-35.
Prutskova Elena. 2020. "Social vs. Individual Centrality of Religiosity: Research in Religious and Non-Religious Settings in Russia." Religions, 12 (15): 1-18.
Prutskova Elena. 2019. "Religiosita e natalit? nei Paesi europei. L’effetto del contesto sociale: “tentazione secolare”, “socializzazione religiosa primaria” o “difesa religiosa”? (Sulla base dello European Values Study)." La bellezza della famiglia in Italia e in Russia: problemi e soluzioni, 132-138, ISBN 978-88-98080-30-4. Pharus Editore Librario. Livorno, Italia.
Zabaev Ivan, Prutskova Elena. 2019. "The Calling and Humility Scale: Extending the Weberian Approach to the Research of the Elective Affinity between Religion and the Economy." Russian Sociological Review, 18 (2): 62-88.
Oreshina Daria, Prutskova Elena, Zabaev Ivan. 2015. "The Social Capital of Russian Orthodox Christianity in the Early 21st Century Applying Social Network Analysis." State, Religion and Church, 2 (2): 6-29.
Pavlyutkin Ivan, Prutskova Elena, Melkumyan Elena. 2015. "Civic effects of higher education in Russia: religiosity, social capital and the ‘pure teaching effect’ of educational programmes." Tertiary Education and Management, 21 (3): 215-228.
Prutskova Elena. 2015. "Civic Effects of Higher Education in Russia: the Impact of Educational Programs." Higher Education in Russia and Beyond, 3, 14-15, Moscow.
Melkumyan Elena, Prutskova Elena, Pavlyutkin Ivan. 2014. "Religiosity, Social Capital and Civic Engagement: Cluster Effects on Russian
Undergraduate Programmes
." Paper presented in track 5 at the EAIR 36 th Annual Forum in Essen, Germany 27-30 August 2014.
Monographs
Goleva Mariia, Melkumyan Elena, Pavlyutkin Ivan, Prutskova Elena. 2022. Family, Work and Religion in the Period of Self-isolation: According to the 2020 Online Survey. Moscow: PSTGU.
Zabaev Ivan, Melkumyan Elena, Pavlyutkin Ivan, Pavlyutkina Elena, Prutskova Elena, Oreshina Daria. 2015. The Invisible Church: Social Effects of the Parish Community in Russian Orthodoxy. Collection of Articles of the Research Seminar “Sociology of Religion” (2011–2014). Moscow: PSTGU.
Zabaev Ivan, Oreshina Daria, Prutskova Elena. 2012. Three Moscow parishes: main socio-demographic characteristics and attitudes of the large parish communities members. Moscow: PSTGU (Reissued in 2016).
Translations
Prutskova Elena, Markin Kirill. 2018. "Trans. from English: Huber S., Huber O.W. The Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS)." Sociology: methodology, methods, mathematical modeling (4M), No. 47, 144-171.
Articles
Prutskova Elena, Pavlyutkin Ivan, Borisova Olga. 2023. "Religiosity and Fertility in Russia and other European Countries: The Effect of Social Context." Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes. No. 2, 103-126, DOI: 10.14515/monitoring.2023.2.2359. (In Russian).
Prutskova Elena, Markin Kirill, Vrublevskaya Polina. 2020. "Q-methodology in the study of "weak religiosity""." Research result. Sociology and Management, 6 (3).
Prutskova Elena. 2018. "Easter cakes and/or Eucharist: typology of Orthodox Christians participating in the blessing of Easter food." Monitoring of Public Opinion: Economic and Social Changes, 2, 243-260.
Prutskova Elena. 2017. "Easter cakes and / or Eucharist: Factors of choosing the ways to prepare for Easter among Orthodox Christian believers." Religion and History: Papers of the V International Scientific Conference, April 20-22, 2017, 253-258, Minsk, Republic of Belarus: Ed. S.I. Shatravsky. Minsk: BSU Publishing Center.
Prutskova Elena. 2017. "Prutskova E.V. 2017. Religiosity and basic values in Russia (based on European Social Survey and Orthodox Monitor)
." XVII April international scientific conference on problems of development of economy and society. In four books. Book 4, Ed. E. Yasin, 23-30, Moscow: NRU HSE.
Prutskova Elena. 2017. "Religiosity and the basic values of Russians (according to the "European Social Survey" and the nationwide study "Orthodox Monitor")
." St. Tikhon’s University Review. Series I: Theology. Philosophy. Religious studies, 4 (72): 126-143.
Prutskova Elena, Markin Kirill. 2017. "Typology of Orthodox Russians: the problem of constructing a generalized religiosity indicator." Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological Studies], 8, 95-105.
Markin Kirill, Prutskova Elena. 2016. "Individual and social dimension of religiosity." Materials of the V All-Russian Sociological Congress [Electronic resource (DVD)], 4848-4858.
Prutskova Elena. 2016. "Not only liturgy: non-liturgical life of orthodox christian parish." Lodka, 2, 166-169.
Prutskova Elena. 2015. "Association of Religiosity with Norms and Values. The Factor of Religious Socialization." Vestnik PSTGU. Series I: Theology, 3 (59): 62-80.
Prutskova Elena. 2015. "Civic Effects of Higher Education in Russia: the Impact of Educational Programs." Higher Education in Russia and Beyond, 3, 14-15, Moscow.
Prutskova Elena. 2014. "Religiosity and basic values in European countries: the effect of primary religious socialization." In XIV April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development. Vol.3. ed. by E. Yasin, 527-536, Moscow: NRU-HSE.
Prutskova Elena. 2014. "Religiosity and tolerance towards behavior forms, censured by major religions (based on European Values Study)." XIII April international academic conference on economic and social development (in 4 volumes). Vol. 2. / Ed. by E.G. Yasin, 647-656, Moscow: NRU HSE.
Prutskova Elena. 2014. "Religious Socialization: The Problem of Conceptualization and Analysis on Micro- and Macro- Level
." In Sociology of religion in the Late Мodern society: a collection of articles based on the Fourth International Conference. NRU "BelSU", September 12, 2014 / Ed. Ed. SD Lebedev, Belgorod: ID "Belgorod" NRU "BelSU".
Zabaev Ivan, Oreshina Daria, Prutskova Elena. 2014. "Social Capital of the Russian Orthodox Christianity in the Early 21st Century: Applying Social Network Analysis." State, Religion and Church in Russia and Worldwide, 1 (32): 40-66, Moscow.
Prutskova Elena. 2013. "Child bearing in Europe: religious socialization effect." Demoscope Weekly, 549, 1-4.
Prutskova Elena. 2013. "Religiosity and its consequences in the sphere of norms and values." Sociological Journal, 2, 72-88.
Prutskova Elena, Zabaev Ivan. 2013. "Social network analysis as a research method for evaluation of the social dimension of religiosity." Man and Religion. , 82-86, Minsk: Izdatelskiy Center BGU. Izdatelstvo "Chetire Chetverti".
Zabaev Ivan, Prutskova Elena. 2013. "Factors of community development at Russian Orthodox Church parishes in the beginning of the 21st century. A survey of priests, parishioners, and social workers of Moscow parishes." Moscow State University Bulletin, Series 18. Sociology and Political Science, 115-125.
Zabaev Ivan, Oreshina Daria, Prutskova Elena. 2013. "Peculiarities of Social Work at the Russian Orthodox Church Parishes: an Issue of Conceptualization." The journal of social policy studies, Volume, 11, 3, 355-368.
Zabaev Ivan, Melkumyan Elena, Oreshina Daria, Pavlyutkin Ivan, Prutskova Elena. 2013. "The impact of religious socialization and belonging to a religious community on fertility. The problem formulation." Demoscope Weekly, 553.
Zabaev Ivan, Prutskova Elena. 2013. "The social network of the Orthodox parish community: possibilities for applying the Analysis of social networks to the sociology of religion." Vestnik PSTGU. Series I: Theology, 4 (48): 120-136.
Prutskova Elena. 2012. "Religiosity and tolerance towards behavior forms, censured by major religions (based on European Values Study)." XIII April international academic conference on economic and social development (in 4 volumes). Vol. 2. Ed. by E.G. Yasin, 647-656, Moscow: NRU HSE.
Prutskova Elena, Zabaev Ivan. 2012. "The community of the Orthodox parish church: space, place, and the formative factors of the parish community with Moscow as an example." Vestnik PSTGU. Series I: Theology, 3 (41): 57-67.
Prutskova Elena. 2012. "The Concept of Religiosity: Operationalization in Empirical Research." State, Religion and Church in Russia and Worldwide, 2 (30): 268-293.
Zabaev Ivan, Prutskova Elena. 2012. "Social support networks in Orthodox church community. Based on a survey of 3 large Moscow parishes." VI theoretical and practical conference "Contemporary sociology for contemporary Russia": Collection of articles in memoriam of the first Dean of the Faculty of Sociology at NRU HSE, A.O. Kryshtanovsky. 1-3 February 2012. Moscow. Moscow: NRU HSE, 598-608.
Zabaev Ivan, Prutskova Elena. 2012. "“Network” concept in social sciences. An application for parish research in the beginning of the XXI century." 4th Regular All-Russian Sociological Congress “Sociology and society: global challenges and regional development” . Moscow: ROS, 4732-4739.
Prutskova Elena, Oreshina Daria. 2011. "Social work at ROC parishes: who should do it and who does? ." International scientific and practical conference "The social doctrine of the Church and the present". 12 -13 may 2011. Orel: Alexander Vorobyov, 265-269.
Prutskova Elena. 2011. "The influence of different religiosity question wordings on respondents' answers." Sociological methods in contemporary research practice: Collection of articles in memoriam of the first Dean of the Faculty of Sociology at NRU HSE, A.O. Kryshtanovsky, Moscow: NRU HSE, 488-495.
Abstracts
Melkumyan Elena, Prutskova Elena. 2018. "Economics, pedagogy, theology and humanities: does the specialty influence the basic values of students?" Moscow: HSE.
Oreshina Daria, Prutskova Elena. 2016. "Factors Influencing the Diversity of Non-Liturgical Activities in Russian Orthodox Church Parishes." 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology. The Futures That We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World. Book of Abstracts. Vienna: International Sociological Association. P, 525.
Prutskova Elena, Markin Kirill. 2016. "The problem of measuring orthodox religiosity in Russia (according to the All-Russian research of the Orthodox Monitor)." Sociology of Religion in the Society of Late Modernity: A Collection of Articles and Abstracts on the Materials of the VI International Scientific Conference on the 140th Anniversary of the Belgorod State University, Ed. S.D. Lebedev. 19-20 september. Belgorod "Epicenter" Ltd: 190-193.
Melkumyan Elena, Prutskova Elena. 2015. "A parishioner of the Russian Orthodox Church as an expert, describing his parish (based on Orthodox Monitor)." Religion and / or everyday life: IV International Scientific Conference “Religion and / or everyday life”, Ed. by S. I. Shatravskiy, M. V. Kazmiruk. April 16-18. Minsk: RIVSH: 154-160.
Melkumyan Elena, Oreshina Daria, Prutskova Elena. 2015. "Religious Factor and Civil Society: the Diversity of Social Life and Voluntary Associations in Russian Orthodox Church Parishes (based on the Orthodox Monitor Survey)." The 5th LCSR International Annual Conference “Cultural and Economic Changes under Cross-national Perspective”. November 16-20. LCSR, National Research University Higher School of Economics. Moscow: 39-40.
Prutskova Elena. 2014. "Religiosity and values in Europe: National context and religious socialization effect ." The 22nd Nordic Conference for Sociology of Religion Change and Continuity – Religion, State, Civil Society. Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen (P.29).
Prutskova Elena. 2013. "Orthodox Monitor: Toward a Holistic Model of Religious Influence on Values and Attitudes in Countries with Forced Secularization Experience." The 3rd International Annual Conference of the LCSR "Cultural and Economic changes under cross-national perspective". November 12-17. NRU HSE. Moscow: 39.
Oreshina Daria, Prutskova Elena, Zabaev Ivan. 2013. "Orthodox Monitor": 3 waves of an all-Russian survey." 5th Conference of the European Survey Research Association. July 15-19, 2013. Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Prutskova Elena. 2013. "Basic values of Russian Orthodox Church members: an application of Schwartz Portrait Value Questionnaire." 5th Conference of the European Survey Research Association. July 15-19, 2013. Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Prutskova Elena. 2013. "Boundaries of the Orthodox parish community social network." X Congress of Russian ethnographers and anthropologists. 02–05.07.2013. Moscow: IEA RAS, 166-167.
Prutskova Elena, Zabaev Ivan. 2012. "Orthodox parish community: spatial localization and formation factors." IV Russian Congress of Sociology "Sociology in the system of scientific management of society". 2-4 February 2012. Moscow. Moscow: IS RAS, 748-749.
Prutskova Elena. 2012. "Religiosity and tolerance of behavior that is disapproved by religions: religious congruence fallacy." 4th Regular All-Russian Sociological Congress “Sociology and society: global challenges and regional development”. Moscow: ROS, 8168-8175.
Prutskova Elena. 2012. "Religiosity and tolerance of behavior that is disapproved by religions: the effect of primary religious socialization (based on European Values Study)." 2nd International Annual LCSR Conference “Social Change in Cross-National Perspective”. Moscow. 6-10 November 2012.
Prutskova Elena, Zabaev Ivan. 2012. "The social activity of Russian Orthodox Church parishes in Russia in the early 21st century: a comparative perspective." Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference “Networks in the Global World: Structural Transformations in Europe, the US and Russia”. 22-24 June 2012. St. Petersburg. 74.
Prutskova Elena. 2011. "What should social work of Russian Orthodox Church be: sociological survey." XXI Annual theological conference of the St. Tikhon University. 20-22 January 2011. Moscow. Moscow: PSTGU.
Reviews
Markin Kirill, Prutskova Elena. 2017. "[Review of the book]: Lee L. Recognizing the Non-Religious: Reimagining the Secular. Oxford University Press, 2015." Vestnik PSTGU. Series I: Theology. Philosophy, 1 (69): 158-164.
Prutskova Elena, Melkumyan Elena. 2014. "[Review]Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion. Volume 3. New Methods in the Sociology of Religion / L. Berzano, O. Preben Riis, eds. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2012. XVIII + 292 p." Vestnik PSTGU. Series I: Theology, 6 (56): 141-145.
Prutskova Elena. 2011. "[Review] Religion, Class Coalitions, and Welfare StatesStates / K. van Kersbergen, P. Manow, eds. Cambridge University Press, 2009." Vestnik PSTGU. Series I: Theology, 6 (38): 139-143.
Working Papers
Prutskova Elena. 2012. "Social Network Analysis: a Review." Working papers, "Sociology of religion" seminar, Series: Quantitative religion research. International practice, 10 (2012): Moscow: PSTGU.
Prutskova Elena. 2010. "Quantitative research on sociology of religion: guidelines for cataloguing religion data resources." Working Papers, "Sociology of Religion" Seminar, Series: Quantitative religion research. International practice, 2 (2010): Moscow: PSTGU.
Prutskova Elena. 2010. "Religiosity: operationalization and quantitative measurement methods ." Working Papers, "Sociology of Religion" Seminar, Series: Quantitative religion research. International practice, 5 (2010): Moscow: PSTGU.
Zabaev Ivan, Oreshina Daria, Prutskova Elena. 2010. "Methodological Problems of Parish Social Work Organization at Russian Orthodox Church in the beginning of XXI century." Working Papers, "Sociology of Religion" Seminar, Series: Empirical research results, 8 (2010): Moscow: PSTGU.
Presentations
Teaching Materials
Zabaev Ivan, Prutskova Elena. 2012. "Social Network Analysis Application in the Research on Orthodox Christian Parish Communities. Teaching Materials." Moscow: PSTGU.
