History and current state of religions in Ukraine

Course: Cultural Studies

Structural unit: Faculty of Philosophy

Title
History and current state of religions in Ukraine
Code
ВП.3.09.01
Module type
Вибіркова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2023/2024
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
4 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
4
Learning outcomes
The purpose of the discipline: to give students an understanding of the current religious situation in Ukraine, knowledge of the historical background and reasons that led to multi-confessionalism in Ukraine, understanding of the risks of inter-church confrontation in society.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
The student should know: the main content of religious doctrines of national and world religions, stages of formation and characteristics of historical forms of religious traditions of the world. The student should be able to: collect and interpret information on the phenomena and phenomena of religious culture, religious processes; identify trends in the formation and transformation of religious views; analyze the cultural and historical features of the formation of religious traditions of the world.
Course content
- The concept of "religious situation". Subject and objectives of the course. - The beginning of the formation of the modern religious situation in Ukraine. - Return of religious freedoms in independent Ukraine. - The attitude of post-totalitarian society to religion and the church. - History of formation and characterization of the confessional space of modern Ukraine. - Confessional diversity in Ukraine at the beginning of the twenty-first century. - The place of national Orthodoxy in the confessional palette of Ukraine. - Changes in the legislation of Ukraine in accordance with the religious situation in the country.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, seminars, self-study
Assessment methods and criteria
Form of control: credit
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Yevhen Anatoliiovych Kharkovshchenko
Department of Religious Studies
Faculty of Philosophy

Departments

The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline

Department of Religious Studies
Faculty of Philosophy