Detelina Tocheva is a social anthropologist with a doctoral degree from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (2005). She holds a permanent position as Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and is a faculty member of the Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités (EPHE-CNRS-PSL Research University Paris). Between 2006 and 2012, she was a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Russian Orthodox parishes in northwestern Russia and in the southern part of the Rhodope Mountains in Bulgaria. Her recent publications include Intimate Divisions: Street-Level Orthodoxy in Post-Soviet Russia (LIT Verlag, 2017).