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Author : Serhii Plokhy,Frank E. Sysyn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119469141
Author : Serhii Plokhy
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191554438
The Ukrainian Cossacks, often compared in historical literature to the pirates of the Mediterranean and the frontiersmen of the American West, constituted one of the largest Cossack hosts in the European steppe borderland. They became famous as ferocious warriors, their fighting skills developed in their religious wars against the Tartars, Turks, Poles, and Russians. By and large the Cossacks were Orthodox Christians, and quite early in their history they adopted a religious ideology in their struggle against those of other faiths. Their acceptance of the Muscovite protectorate in 1654 was also influenced by their religious ideas. In this pioneering study, Serhii Plokhy examines the confessionalization of religious life in the early modern period, and shows how Cossack involvment in the religious struggle between Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicisim helped shape not only Ukrainian but also Russian and Polish cultural identities.
Author : Anatoly M. Kolodny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Church and state
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110916991
Author : Mariya Lesiv
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773589650
As Ukraine struggles to find its national identity, modern Ukrainian Pagans offer an alternative vision of the Ukrainian nation. Drawing inspiration from the spiritual life of past millennia, they strive to return to the pre-Christian roots of their ancestors. Since Christianity dominates the spiritual discourse in Ukraine, Pagans are marginalized, and their ideas are perceived as radical. In The Return of Ancestral Gods, Mariya Lesiv explores Pagan beliefs and practices in Ukraine and amongst the North American Ukrainian diaspora. Drawing on intensive fieldwork, archival documents, and published sources not available in English, she allows the voices of Pagans to be heard. Paganism in Slavic countries is heavily charged with ethno-nationalist politics, and previous scholarship has mainly focused on this aspect. Lesiv finds it important to consider not only how Paganism is preached but also the way that it is understood on a private level. She shows that many Ukrainians embrace Paganism because of its aesthetic aspects rather than its associated politics and discusses the role that aesthetics may play in the further development of Ukrainian Paganism. Paganism in Eastern Europe remains underrepresented within Pagan studies, and this work helps to fill that gap. Extensive comparative references to various forms of Western Paganism allows English-speaking readers to better understand the world of Ukrainian Pagans.
Author : Frank E. Sysyn,Martin Schulze Wessel
Publisher : University of Alberta Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1894865383
The book is a collection of scholarly essays about the interrelationships between religion and religious institutions, nations and nation building, and secularization. The book presents nine papers by eminent scholars from Ukraine, Austria, Canada, and the United States that examine a wide range of topics relating to the last four hundred years: religious culture and the role of clergy as agents of modernization; national identity and transnational religious phenomena; the relationship between sacred tongues and modern language formation; the interaction of secularizing trends with ritual and tradition; the interrelation of religious hierarchies and political movements; and popular belief in relation to religious dogma. The book focuses on Ukrainian territories, but attention is also drawn to Belarusian territories, inasmuch as the Ruthenian (i.e., Ukrainian and Belarusian) lands shared common religious and cultural institutions in the early modern period. The majority of the essays address Ukrainian or Eastern Christian religious formations, but other religious groups, such as Jews, are also discussed. In light of the modern-day globalization of Ukrainian religious groups and the rise of diasporas, some of the essays also cover Western Europe and the Americas. The original papers were delivered at an international conference, held in Munich in 2010, that was co-sponsored by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (Munich); Charles University (Prague); the Ukrainian Free University (Munich); and the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta (Edmonton). Contributors: Kerstin S. Jobst, Burkhard Wöller, Michael Moser, Tobias Grill, Frank E. Sysyn, Liliana Hentosh, Oleh Pavlyshyn, Martha Bohachevsky-Chomiak, Leonid Heretz.
Author : Geoffrey A. Hosking
Publisher : CIUS Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0920862713
Author : Geoffrey A. Hosking
Publisher : Springer
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349215669
The opportunities opened up by the Gorbachev reforms have shown that religion is one of the most significant dynamic forces in Soviet society. Yet few scholars have attempted to relate the study of churches and religious movements in recent centuries to the politics and culture of the Soviet Union. To remedy this deficiency, leading western experts on Christianity in the Eastern Slav lands gathered at a conference in London on the occasion of the millennium of the baptism of Rus'. Their papers present unexpected and fascinating insights into an under-rated but crucial aspect of the life of the Soviet peoples.
Author : Michał Wawrzonek
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781443875851
For several years now, Russia has been trying to justify her neo-imperialist policies towards Ukraine, promoting the vision of a common “Orthodox civilization,” in reference to the religious and cultural spheres. The Russian Orthodox Church is an important element of “soft power,” whose help the Kremlin authorities are seeking in conducting their policies towards the so-called “near-abroad.” Ukraine comprises an exceptionally important place in this sphere. This book analyzes the role of religion and Eastern Christian communities in Ukrainian social and political life, and the political, social, cultural and civilizational conditions for the development of religious life in Ukraine. Particular attention is focused on the problem of institutionalizing Eastern Christian communities after the collapse of the USSR. This monograph presents the conditions under which this process in post-Soviet Ukraine is carried out and the way in which it is linked to the functioning of the Ukrainian political system. This allows one to gain a new perspective on this system and capture its essence more fully. Primarily, this concerns the question of its democratic or non-democratic character. The book is an interdisciplinary research monograph, and, as such, will be useful to researchers interested in the post-Soviet space from the perspective of various disciplines, including political sciences, history, sociology and religious studies. The research and editing of the book were supported by National Science Centre Poland – grant number 2011/01/B/HS5/00911.
Author : National Committee to Commemorate the Millennium of Christianity in Ukraine
Publisher : New York : Smoloskyp Publishers and the National Committee to Commemorate the Millen[n]ium of Christianity in Ukraine
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Christianity
ISBN : IND:30000000921480
Author : J.-P. Himka
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780773567603
Using Soviet archival materials declassified in the 1980s, John-Paul Himka examines a period during which the Greek Catholic church in Galicia was involved in a protracted, and at times bitter, struggle to maintain its distinctive, historically developed rites and customs. He focuses on the way differing concepts of Rutherian nationality affected the perception and course of church affairs while showing the influence of local ecclesiastical matters on the development and acceptance of these divergent concepts of nationality. The implications and complications of the Galician imbroglio are engagingly explained in this latest addition to Himka's work on nationality in late nineteenth-century Galicia. His analysis of the relationship between the church and the national movement is a valuable addition to the study of religion and national movements in East Europe and beyond.
Author : John-Paul Himka
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0773518126
Delves into recently declassified Soviet archival material to examine the Greek Catholic Church and the national movement in Galacia in the late 19th century, focusing on the way differing concepts of Rutherian nationality affected the perception and course of church affairs. Examines the influence of local ecclesiastical matters on the development and acceptance of divergent concepts of nationality, and explains implications and complications of the Greek Catholic Church's struggle to maintain it distinctive rites and customs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Vitaliy Proshak
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783656573227
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject Theology - Miscellaneous, Utrecht University, language: English, abstract: The present publication describes the general trends and contemporary situation in religious education in secondary schools and institutions of higher education in contemporary Ukraine from the perspective of religion – state - society relations. Research areas of this study focus on political context, educational problems, and religious character of religious education in Ukrainian society.
Author : Serhii Plokhy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139458924
This book documents developments in the countries of eastern Europe, including the rise of authoritarian tendencies in Russia and Belarus, as well as the victory of the democratic 'Orange Revolution' in Ukraine, and poses important questions about the origins of the East Slavic nations and the essential similarities or differences between their cultures. It traces the origins of the modern Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian nations by focusing on pre-modern forms of group identity among the Eastern Slavs. It also challenges attempts to 'nationalize' the Rus' past on behalf of existing national projects, laying the groundwork for understanding of the pre-modern history of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The book covers the period from the Christianization of Kyivan Rus' in the tenth century to the reign of Peter I and his eighteenth-century successors, by which time the idea of nationalism had begun to influence the thinking of East Slavic elites.
Author : Vitaliy Proshak
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783656590729
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject Sociology - Religion, grade: not graded, Utrecht University, course: Religion and Education, language: English, abstract: In the present time (2010) Ukraine is going through the period of transition from historical domination of Eastern Orthodoxy to a pluralist and secular religious and social model of democratic society. The present article, which is divided into four main parts and focuses on the main historical events in the development of religious and academic life in Ukraine, seeks to provide a reader with general overview of the progress in religion and religious education in Ukraine and covers the time period from Christianization of Kievan Russ in 989 till the proclamation of independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union in 1991.
Author : Elizabeth A. Clark,Dmytro Vovk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000710830
This book investigates how the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine has affected the religious situation in these countries. It considers threats to and violations of religious freedom, including those arising in annexed Crimea and in the eastern part of Ukraine, where fighting between Ukrainian government forces and separatist paramilitary groups backed and controlled by Russia is still going on, as well as in Russia and Ukraine more generally. It also assesses the impact of the conflict on church-state relations and national religion policy in each country and explores the role religion has played in the military conflict and the ideology surrounding it, focusing especially on the role of the Ukrainian and Russian Orthodox churches, as well as on the consequences for inter-church relations and dialogue.