Andranik Stepanyan

Results-oriented Professor brings top talents in instructional plan development, public speaking, and assignment and test assessments. Enthusiastic and energetic professional with several years of comprehensive experience educating students in university-based settings. Profound lesson planner dedicated to achieving classroom management and academic goals. I have years of experience in lecturing mainly in the areas of Philosophy, Religious Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Philosophy of Culture, and Hermeneutics. Within the scope of Religious Studies, I covered topics such as Ethics and Religion.

09/01/23 - present, Armenian Philosophical Academy

Book:

Death of God Theology, Armenian, VMV Print, 2017. In Armenian.

Teaching Program:

Theory and History of Religion (Religious Studies), Urartu University of Practical Psychology and Sociology, Lazercopy, 2010. In Armenian. 

Articles:

Critical remarks on the essence and scope of the philosophy of religion. Wisdom, 12, 1, 2019, 90-99, English.

Critical Remarks on the Theoretical Significance of Vahanian’s Death of God Theology (Brief Review). Wisdom, 2, 9, 2017, 56-66, English. 

Gabriel Vahanian as a Radical Religious Thinker. Wisdom, 1, 4, 2015, 81-96. 

Science of Religion and Religious Studies as Self-reliant Disciplines, Wisdom, 1, 4, 2015, 97-108, Arman Vermishyan. 

The Religious Features of Radical Thinking. Wisdom, 2, 3, 2014, 182-192. 

The Demonstration of Religious Modernism in modern Transformational Society: The Crisis of Religion as an Expression of World-wide Cultural Crisis. Wisdom, N1, 2013, 126-135. 

Theological and Philosophical Concepts of Religion. Kantegh, 2, 51, 2012, 230-235, Asoghik. 

Features of Religious Modernism. Kantegh, 3, 48, 2011, 183-190, Asoghik. 

Radical Theology as a Type of Religious Modernism, History of Philosophy and Modernity. Yerevan State University, 2011, 14-33, Limush. 

The Problems of the Psychology of Religion. Psychology and Life, 1-2, 2010, 169-172, Zangak-97. 

Secularism as a Type of World View. Kantegh, 4, 45, 2010, 180-189, Asoghik. 

Features of the Death of God Theology. History of Philosophy and Modernity, Yerevan State University, 2010, 71-85, Limush. 

Philosophical Aspects of the Death of God. Kantegh, 2009, 187-200, Asoghik. 

Religious Crisis as Premise for Rise of the Radical Theology. History of Philosophy and Modernity, Yerevan State University, 2009, 32-65, Asoghik. 

Life, Activities and Writings of Gabriel Vahanian. History of Philosophy and Modernity, Yerevan State University, 2008, 56-85, Limush. 

The Armenian Text of the Book of Genesis I-V. Ajemian Matenashar A, Yerevan State University, 2002, 339-360.

Date of Birth: 01/29/71

• 11/15/18, International Day of Philosophy, Khachatur Abovyan Armenian State Pedagogical University, Yerevan, Armenia, Main Speaker, Religious Studies and Philosophy of Religion
• 12/07/17, Guest Lecturer/Speaker, La Sierra University, Riverside, California, USA, Philosophical Aspects of the Death of God Motif
• 11/20/17 - 12/08/17, Research and Study of Educational System in the School of Religious Studies, La Sierra University, Riverside, California, USA
• 11/16/17, International Day of Philosophy, Khachatur Abovyan Armenian State Pedagogical University, Yerevan, Armenia, Main Speaker, The death of God Motif: from Friedrich Nietzsche to Gabriel Vahanian
• 10/18/17 - 10/22/17, Guest Lecturer/Speaker, Corvinus University of Budapest and Peter Pázmány Catholic University Budapest, Budapest, Hungary, Understanding Culture: Ethnocentrism, Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism, Gabriel Vahanian and the Death of God Theology
• 11/22/16 - 11/23/16, International Conference Devoted to Academician Georg Brutian’s 90th Anniversary, Henotheism as the Necessary Premise for Rise of Monotheism
• 04/16/12 - 04/17/12, International Conference, Yerevan, Armenia, The Demonstration of Religious Modernism in Transformational Society: The Crisis of Religion as an Expression of World-Wide Cultural Crisis
• 06/15/11 - 08/22/11, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, La Sierra University, Riverside, CA, USA, Post-Modern Theological and Philosophical Thought
• 05/01/06 - 07/31/06, Doctoral Research Fellowship, La Sierra University, Riverside, CA, USA, Professor Fritz Guy, Professor John Webster, Gabriel Vahanian’s Death of God Theology: Religio-cultural and Philosophical Aspects
• 11/01/99, Visiting Scholar, Boston, MA, USA, Differences between Western and Eastern Christianity, Christianity in Armenia
• 02/01/98, Visiting Scholar, Pyatigorsk, Russia, Inter-Religious Conference organized by Russian Branch of the International Religious Liberty Association of the United Nations, Development of Understanding of the Religious Liberty
• 04/01/97, Participant, Religion and Psychological Counseling, Podolsk, Russia