Panel: CONFLICTS, EMERGENCY RULES, AND RELIGIOUS MINORITIES



257.4 - UKRAINIAN SWING: STATE-CONFESSIONAL POLICY BETWEEN DENOMINATIONALISM AND REPRESSIVE APPROACH

AUTHORS:
Brylov D. (Senior Researcher of the A. Krymskiy Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv), Associated Researcher of the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (Berlin) ~ Kvyv ~ Ukraine)
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The specificity of the Ukrainian religious situation has long been religious pluralism, resulting from the coexistence of three competing large churches, called denominationalism. During the Russian invasion, one of the churches at the core of this religious dynamic equilibrium, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, was relegated to the status of a 'repressed' church for various reasons. In my paper, I will show the dynamics of this transformation and consider possible scenarios for further developments and outcomes for the Ukrainian religious field as a whole.