Kristina Stoeckl is Full Professor of sociology at LUISS (Rome). From 2015 until 2023 she worked at the University of Innsbruck (Austria), since 2019 as Full Professor of sociology. She holds a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence. Her research areas are sociology of religion, political sociology, and political theory, with a focus on politics and religion, on state-religion relations in Russia, norm and anti-gender mobilizations, and transnational religious actors. She has published The Russian Orthodox Church and Human Rights (2014) and (together with Dmitry Uzlaner) Moralist International. Russia in the Global Culture Wars (2022) as well as numerous journal articles in Religion, State and Society, Global Networks, Journal of Contemporary Religion and others.