Below are the full details of most of my publications A shorter selection of these, broken down by theme, is available here. If a publication is not available in Open Access, please feel free to contact me on a.christoyannopoulos_at_gmail.com for a copy (or to report any broken links). My ORCID ID is orcid.org/0000-0001-5133-3268.
Tolstoy's Political Thought: Christian Anarcho-Pacifist Iconoclasm Then and Now (Routledge, 2020). ISBN: 978-04-1560-402-4. DOI: 10.4324/9780429330957 [Click here for more information. Introduction freely available here.]
(ed.), Essays in Anarchism and Religion: Volume III, edited with Matthew S. Adams (Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2020). 352 pages. ISBN: 978-91-7635-108-6. DOI: 10.16993/bbb [Click here for more information and free access to all chapters.]
(ed.), Essays in Anarchism and Religion: Volume II, edited with Matthew S. Adams (Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2018). 351 pages. ISBN: 978–91–7635–075–1. DOI: 10.16993/bas. [Click here for more information and free access to all chapters.]
(ed.), Essays in Anarchism and Religion: Volume I, edited with Matthew S. Adams (Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2017). 330 pages. ISBN: 978–91–7635–043–0. DOI: 10.16993/bak. [Click here for more information and free access to all chapters.]
Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2010 [hardback]). 350 pages. ISBN: 978-1845401931. [Click here for more information. Chapter 1 freely available here and here.]
French translation by Jean Marie Dumortier, Édith Buissart, and Alexandre Christoyannopoulos: L’anarchisme chrétien : Un commentaire politique de l’Évangile. (Lyon: Atelier de création libertaire, 2022).
German translation by Lars Schall: Christlicher Anarchismus : Ein politischer Kommentar zum Evangelium. (Books on Demand, 2024)
Abridged paperback (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2011). 290 pages. ISBN: 978-1845402471.
(ed.), Religious Anarchism: New Perspectives (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009 [hardback]). 360 pages. ISBN: 978-1443811323. [Click here for more information. Chapter 6 freely available here, Preface and Introduction available here.]
Paperback (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011). 360 pages. ISBN: 978-1443831895.
"Questioning the Warist Orthodoxy: Pacifist Critical Reflections on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine", International Affairs 101/1 (2025), 253-272. DOI: 10.1093/ia/iiae275.
"Mapping the landscape between pacifism and anarchism: frictions, rejoinders, and mutual resonances", British Journal of Politics and International Relations 27/1 (2025), 407-429. DOI: 10.1177/13691481241257806. [Freely available here.]
"On Andreas Malm’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline", co-authored with Brian Martin, Isak Svensson, Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, Alexei Anisin, Antoine Durance, and Manuel Cervera-Marzal, Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence 2/2 (2024), 257-291. DOI: 10.1163/27727882-bja00030.
"Pacifism and Nonviolence: Discerning the contours of an emerging multidisciplinary research agenda", Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence 1/1 (2023): 1-27. DOI: 10.1163/27727882-bja00011. [Freely available here.]
"An Anarcho-Pacifist Reading of International Relations: A normative critique of international politics from the confluence of pacifism and anarchism", International Studies Quarterly 66/4 (December 2022). DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqac070. [Freely available here.]
"A Pacifist Critique of the Red Poppy: reflections on the militaristic drift of British war commemorations", Critical Military Studies 9/3 (2023): 324-345. DOI: 10.1080/23337486.2021.2014237. [Freely available here.]
"Leo Tolstoy’s Impact on Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement", co-authored with Erik A. Nelson, Tolstoy Studies Journal 32 (2020): 17-39. [Freely available here.]
"The Subversive Potential of Leo Tolstoy’s ‘Defamiliarisation’: A Case Study in Drawing on the Imagination to Denounce Violence", Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 22/5 (2019): 562-580, Special Issue: Political Violence and the Imagination, eds. Mihaela Mihai and Mathias Thaler. DOI: 10.1080/13698230.2019.1565700. [Freely available here.]
"Leo Tolstoy’s Anticlericalism in Its Context and Beyond: A Case against Churches and Clerics, Religious and Secular", Religions 7/5 (May 2016): 59. DOI: 10.3390/rel7050059. [Freely available here.].
"'Bethink Yourselves or You Will Perish': Leo Tolstoy's Voice a Centenary after His Death", Anarchist Studies, 18/2 (Autumn 2010): 11-18. [Freely available here, here and here.]
Russian translation by A. Kabanov: “«Одумайтесь, а то погибнете»: Голос Льва Толстого спустя столетие после его смерти”, in A.A. Guseinov and T.G. Shchedrina (eds), Лев Николаевич Толстой, part of Философия России первой половины ХХ века book series (Moscow: РОССПЭН, 2014), pp. 299-305 [Freely available here.]
"Jesus Christ against the Westphalian Leviathans: A Christian Anarchist Critique of Our Coercive, Idolatrous and Unchristian International Order", Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought 1/2 (2010): 41-65. DOI: 10.1080/23269995.2010.10707856. [Freely available here, here and here.]
"Leo Tolstoy on the State: A Detailed Picture of Tolstoy's Denunciation of State Violence and Deception", Anarchist Studies 16/1 (Spring 2008) 20-47. [Freely available here (4.2 MB) or here (1 MB).]
Greek translation by Ισιδώρα Στανιμεράκη and Ξένια Καλαϊτζίδου, in Λέων Τολστόι: Η δουλεία της εποχής μας: το κράτος (Αθήνα: Πανόπτικον, 2021).
German translation by Sebastian Kalicha: "Leo Tolstoi über den Staat", in Arbeitsgruppe Anarchismus und Gewaltfreiheit (eds.), Je mehr Gewalt, desto weniger Revolution: Texte zum gewaltfreien Anarchismus & anarchistischen Pazifismus (Heidelberg: Verlag Graswurzelrevolution, 2018), pp. 17-59.
"Turning the Other Cheek to Terrorism: Reflections on the Contemporary Significance of Leo Tolstoy's Exegesis of the Sermon on the Mount", Politics and Religion 1/1 (April 2008): 27-54. DOI: 10.1017/S1755048308000035. [Freely available here and here. An earlier draft presented at the Political Studies Association's 2005 Annual Conference is available here.]
Bengali translation by Sumita and Pradip Baksi (of the 2005 version): "Lef Tolstoy o “Santraser Biruddhe Juddho”: Balaproyoger Biruddhe Ekti Pragatishil Christiya Pratibad", in Ebang Mushayera (Kolkata) 16/4 (January-March 2010): 379-403.
"Love, Justice, and Social Eschatology", co-authored with Joseph Milne, The Heythrop Journal 48/6 (November 2007): 972-991. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2265.2007.00352.x. [Freely available here.]
"The Subversive Potential of Leo Tolstoy’s ‘Defamiliarisation’: A Case Study in Drawing on the Imagination to Denounce Violence", in Political Violence and the Imagination: Complicity, Memory and Resistance, edited by Mathias Thaler and Mihaela Mihai (Abingdon: Routledge, 2020). DOI: 10.4324/9781003054245-5.
"Tolstoy’s Christian Anarcho-Pacifism: An Exposition", in Essays in Anarchism and Religion: Volume III, edited by Alexandre Christoyannopoulos and Matthew Adams (Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2020), 71-118. DOI: 10.16993/bbb.c [Freely available here.]
"Anarchism, Religion, and the Religiousness of Political Ideologies", co-authored with Matthew S. Adams, introduction to Essays in Anarchism and Religion: Volume III, edited by Alexandre Christoyannopoulos and Matthew Adams (Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2020), 1-20. DOI: 10.16993/bbb.a [Freely available here.]
Greek translation by Χρίστος Ηλιόπουλος: "Αναρχισμός, θρησκεία, kαι θρησκευτικότηγα των πολίτικων ιδεολογίων", in Alexandre Chritoyannopoulos, Matthew S. Adams, Nekeisha Alexis-Baker and Χρίστος Ηλιόπουλος, Απέναντι στο Κράτος: αναρχοχριστιανικές προσεγγίσεις (Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Firebrand), 33-56.
"Religious Radicalism", co-authored with Anthony T Fiscella, in Routledge Handbook of Radical Politics, edited by Uri Gordon and Ruth Kinna (Abingdon: Routledge, 2019), 492-509. [Freely available here.]
"Anarchism and Religion: Exploring Definitions", co-authored with Matthew Adams, introduction to Christoyannopoulos and Adams (eds.), Essays in Anarchism and Religion: Volume II (Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2018), 1-19. DOI: 10.16993/bas.a/ [Freely available here and here.]
"Anarchism and Religion", co-authored with Lara Apps, in Brill's Companion to Anarchism and Philosophy, edited by Nathan Jun (Leiden: Brill, 2018), 120-151. DOI: 10.1163/9789004356894_006. [Revised version of "Religious Studies and Anarchism" below. Freely available here.]
"Anarchism and Religion", co-authored with Lara Apps, in Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism, edited by Carl Levy and Matthew S. Adams (Cham: Palgrave, 2019). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75620-2_9. [Revised version of "Anarchism and Religion" above.]
"Religious Studies and Anarchism", in The Anarchist Imagination: Anarchism Encounters the Humanities and the Social Sciences, edited by Carl Levy and Saul Newman (Abingdon: Routledge, 2019). DOI: 10.4324/9781315693163-13. [Will eventually be available online.]
French translation by Jean-Christophe Angaut, Marion Blancher, Anatole Lucet, Layla Roesler and Alice Séqué-Weill: Anarchisme et religion (Lyon: Atelier de création libertaire, 2018). ISBN: 978-2351041123. [More information here.]
"Anarchism and Religion: Mapping an Increasingly Fruitful Landscape", co-authored with Matthew Adams, introduction to Christoyannopoulos and Adams (eds.), Essays in Anarchism and Religion: Volume I (Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2017), 1-17. DOI: 10.16993/bak/. [Freely available here.]
Greek translation by Χρίστος Ηλιόπουλος: "Αναρχισμός kαι θρησκεία: χαρτογραφώντας ένα αυξανόμενα γόνιμο τοπίο", in Alexandre Chritoyannopoulos, Matthew S. Adams, Nekeisha Alexis-Baker and Χρίστος Ηλιόπουλος, Απέναντι στο Κράτος: αναρχοχριστιανικές προσεγγίσεις (Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Firebrand), 19-32.
"The Golden Rule on the Green Stick: Leo Tolstoy's Postsecular International Thought", Towards a Postsecular International Politics: New Forms of Community, Identity, and Power, edited by Luca Mavelli and Fabio Petito (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 81-102. [Freely available here. More info here. Also presented at Dialogue of Civilizations: World Public Forum conference (in Rhodes), September 2014, available here.]
"A Christian Anarchist Critique of Violence: From Turning the Other Cheek to a Rejection of the State", in Law, Morality and Politics: Global Perspectives on Violence and the State, edited by Stephen King, Carlo Salzani, and Owen Staley (Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2010), 19-26. [Freely available here. This is a ruthlessly condensed version of the paper listed further below.
French translation by Jean-Marie Dumortier, Edith Buissart and Alexandre Christoyannopoulos: "Une critique anarchiste chrétienne de la violence: Tendre l'autre joue comme un rejet de l'État", in Religion et contestation, edited by Jérôme Grosclaude (Clermont-Ferrand: Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2016), 37-61. [Freely available here.]
Greek translation by Χρίστος Ηλιόπουλος: "Μια Χριστιανική Αναρχική Κριτική της Βίας: Από το Γύρισμα και της Άλλης Παρειάς στην Απόρριψη του Κράτους", in Alexandre Chritoyannopoulos, Matthew S. Adams, Nekeisha Alexis-Baker and Χρίστος Ηλιόπουλος, Απέναντι στο Κράτος: αναρχοχριστιανικές προσεγγίσεις (Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Firebrand), 57-72. [Freely available here and here.]
"Die Bergpredigt - ein christlich-anarchistisches Manifest: Ausgewählte Passagen libertär interpretiert", in Christlicher Anarchismus: Facetten einer libertären Strömung, edited by Sebastian Kalicha (Freiburg: Verlag Graswurzelrevolution, 2013), 49-88. [More information here. German translation by Sebastian Kalicha of significant parts of Chapter 1 of Christian Anarchism.]
"Christian Anarchism: A Revolutionary Reading of the Bible", in New Perspectives on Anarchism, part of the Out Sources: Philosophy, Culture, Politics series, edited by Nathan Jun and Shane Wahl (Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2010), 149-167. [This is a significantly revised version of the PSA 2006 paper listed below.]
"Responding to the State: Christian Anarchists on Romans 13, Rendering to Caesar, and Civil Disobedience", in Religious Anarchism: New Perspectives, edited by Alexandre J. M. E. Christoyannopoulos (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing: 2009), 106-144. [Freely available here and here.]
Greek translation by Χρίστος Ηλιόπουλος: "Aντιδρώντας στο Kράτος: η θέση των χριστιανών αναρχικών για την Προς Ρωμαίους Επιστολή κεφ. 13 και την πολιτική ανυπακοή", in Alexandre Chritoyannopoulos, Matthew S. Adams, Nekeisha Alexis-Baker and Χρίστος Ηλιόπουλος, Απέναντι στο Κράτος: αναρχοχριστιανικές προσεγγίσεις (Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Firebrand), 73-140. [Freely available here.]
"Tolstoy’s Anarchist Denunciation of State Violence and Deception", in Anti-Democratic Thought, edited by Erich Kofmel (Exeter: Imprint Academic, 2008), 85-100. [This is a condensed version of the Anarchist Studies paper listed above.]
Russian translation by A. Kabanov: “Порицание Толстым насилия и лжи государства с позиции анархизма”, in A.A. Guseinov and T.G. Shchedrina (eds), Лев Николаевич Толстой, part of Философия России первой половины ХХ века book series (Moscow: РОССПЭН, 2014), pp. 277-298. [Freely available here.]
"'Him Only Shalt Thou Serve': A Christian Anarchist Critique of the Westphalian International Order", presented at the British International Studies Association Annual Conference in December 2008, and at the "Rethinking Anarchy: Anarchism and World Politics colloquium" in June 2010. [Freely available here and here.]
"A Christian Anarchist Critique of Violence: From Turning the Other Cheek to a Rejection of the State", presented at Inter-disciplinary.net's "Evil, Law and the State" 4th global conference and at the Political Studies Association's 60th Annual conference in March 2010. [Freely available here and here.]
"The Contemporary Relevance of Tolstoy's Late Political Thought", presented at the 21st World Congress of the International Political Science Association in July 2009. [Freely available here, here and here.]
Portuguese translation by Bruno Luis Marra Silva and Ligia Chicareli Kawata: "A relevância contemporânea do pensamento político tardio de Tolstói" (2012). [Freely available here.]
Christian Anarchism: The Forgotten Politics of Jesus' Rule of Love", presented at the Political Studies Association's Annual Conference in April 2006. [An improved version was presented at the World International Studies Conference in July 2008, and is freely available here and here. The original version is available here, here, and here.]
"Tolstoy the Peculiar Christian Anarchist", presented in June 2006 at the first Jesusradicals UK conference titled "God Save the Queen: Anarchism and Christianity today". [Freely available here, here, here, and here.]
Turkish translation by Alişan Şahin: "Nev-i Şahsına Münhasır Bir Hristiyan Anarşist: Tolstoy", in Qijika Reş Dergisi'nin 5. Sayısı Çıktı, 23 January 2012, 115-119.
"Pacifism", co-authored with Richard Jackson, Elgar Encyclopedia of International Relations, edited by Beate Jahn and Sebastian Schindler (Edward Elgar, forthcoming).
"Leo Tolstoy", The Encyclopedia of Political Thought, edited by Michael T. Gibbons, Diana Coole, Elisabeth Ellis, and Kennan Ferguson (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014). [Freely available here.]
"Leo Tolstoy", International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present, edited by Immanuel Ness (Blackwell, 2009). [Freely available here.]
"Anarchist and Pacifist Resonances", review essay on Chris Coyne’s In Search of Monsters to Destroy: The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace (Oakland: Independent Institute, 2022), Markets & Society, 1/2 (2025): 124-130. [Available here.]
Book review of Tripp York's Living on Hope While Living in Babylon: The Christian Anarchists of the 20th Century (Cambridge: Lutterworth, 2009), Anarchist Studies, 18/2 (2010): 126-127.
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