11/07/2025 08:30
- 12:00
HALL: Seminar Room 05
Proponent:
Sinkevych N.
Chair:
Berezhnaya L.
Speaker:
Almes I.,
Chemodanova O.,
Gavrilyuk P.,
Morawiec N.,
Potapenko S.,
Prokopyuk O.,
Sinkevych N.
Political events of nowadays are showing very clearly how important is the Church for Ukrainian society. History of religious denominations is an inexhaustible source of facts for building statements and arguments on the cultural and political orientation of Ukrainian state and society. This panel deals with the premodern time, when different cultural and confessional identities were shaped on the Ukrainian lands. Moreover, at this time, the first narratives of national importance appeared among Ruthenian Church intellectuals (both Uniate and Orthodox).
In 1990s, Ukrainian scholars started to argue Ukrainian Christianity was not an amorphous mixture of external influences but represents a certain tradition. However, the question what were the distinctive features of this phenomenon remains open, leaving the concept of Kyivan Christianity under development.
Nevertheless, as German researcher Klaus Koschorke has repeatedly shown, the history of the Church must be treated as a polycentric movement with the proper attention to the plurality of Christian centres. Can we speak of Kyivan Christianity as a separate phenomenon and of Kyiv as one of the centres of the World Christianity?
This panel is aiming to give an answer to that question, taking into consideration a long years research of the Ukrainian history and theology.