Alexandros Sakellariou

Biography

Alexandros Sakellariou was born in Athens in 1977. He studied Philosophy, Pedagogics and Psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy of Athens (1996-2000) and he continued his studies on a post-graduate level at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences of Athens (2001-2003) studying Sociology and Social Psychology. In 2008 he earned his PhD at Panteion University, Department of Sociology, in the field of Sociology of Religion. He is a senior researcher at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Sociology. From 2016 to 2024 he taught sociology at the Hellenic Open University as an adjunct member of the teaching staff and from 2011 he works as a researcher in large scale European research projects. He has also taught at Panteion University (Department of Sociology) a class on “Forms of contemporary religious violence” (2017-18) and he has completed a post-doctoral research on “Forms of atheism in contemporary Greek society” (2020). His main research interests include among others, sociology of religion and non-religion (religious communities, religious identities), sociology of youth, radicalisation and qualitative research methods.
He has over 70 publications in national and international journals, edited volumes and conference proceedings, more than 90 lectures in conferences in Greece and abroad, over 40 book reviews and his interviews, opinion pieces and articles have been published in Greek and international media. He has published two books, “Religion and pandemic in Greek society: Power relations, religious populism and the pending secularisation” (2020, in Greek) and “Atheism in Greek society: From Orthodox religious memory to the atheist religious consciousness” (2022, in Greek). He is an editorial member of the Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review (2013), Facta Universitatis, series: Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology and History (2014) and Wuhan Journal of Cultic Studies (2021). He is registered as an external affiliate and an expert at the National Centre for Social Research and he is also a substitute member of the Research Ethics Committee of the National Centre for Social Research. He is a member of the EUREL (Sociological and legal data on religions in Europe and beyond) Network.