Branko Sekulić

Branko Sekulić earned a Master’s degree at the Faculty of Theology “Matija V. Ilirik” in Zagreb and at the Ecumenical Institute of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, while obtaining a certificate in peace education at the Center for Peace Studies in Zagreb. He earned his doctoral degree at the Faculty of Protestant Theology at Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, which also confirmed his habilitation in the field of systematic theology. Since 2017, he has been a lecturer and, since 2023, an assistant professor at the University Center for Protestant Theology “Matija V. Ilirik” in Zagreb. He is the founder and president of the Institute for Theology and Politics (since 2023), director and lecturer at the Academy for Theology and Politics (since 2023), and program director of the Festival of the Alternative and the Left in his hometown of Šibenik (since 2014). He has been a visiting professor and researcher at the Stanford Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (2024), a visiting scholar at the Institute for Eastern Church Studies and Ecumenics, University of Münster (2025), and an external collaborator with the Templeton Religion Trust on the project The Forms of Pluralism in the Balkans (since 2025). In addition to scholarly articles, he has published books including: The Theology of Ethnocultural Empathic Turn: Getting to the Core of Sacralized Crime, Ethnoreligiosity in the Contemporary Societies of the Former Yugoslavia: The Veils of Christian Delusion, Krabulja kršćanskog vulgarizma: Fenomen etnoreligijantstva na prostoru bivše Jugoslavije (The Specter of Christian Vulgarism: The Phenomenon of Ethnoreligiosity in the Former Yugoslavia), and Prodor u srce sakraliziranog zločina (Penetrating the Heart of Sacralized Crime).