Editor’s Note

Elena A. Stepanova, Dr. Sci. (Philosophy), is a Principal Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy and Law, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Principal Research Fellow at the Ural Institute of Humanities, Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg, Russia. She is the author of about 150 articles, book chapters, and books. Her main research interests are centered around inter-confessional relations, secularism and post-secularism, religion in public sphere, and contemporary Christianity.