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Interfaith Relations in the National Security System of Ukraine

ОК.08

Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП

Second

2023/2024

2 Semester

4

2. Confidently possess the state and foreign languages for the implementation of written and oral communication, including for scientific and professional communication; present research results in national and foreign languages. 4. Evaluate and critically analyze state-denominational, inter-denominational and inter-religious relations, the state of religious freedom and religious security in Ukraine and the world. 5. To propose ways of solving socio-religious problems in complex and unpredictable conditions, which involves the use of relevant approaches and forecasting. 10. Make effective decisions when solving complex tasks and problems of religious studies and in wider contexts, in particular, in conditions of incomplete information and conflicting requirements.

Full-time form

Before starting the course, the student must: 1. Know the main conceptual approaches to the analysis of religion as a phenomenon; the history of the emergence and development of various world religions, religious denominations in Ukraine. 2. To be able to use information and communication technologies; search, process and analyze information from various sources; collect and interpret information on cultural phenomena and events; to analyze the essence, properties and other systemic characteristics of the phenomenon of religion using special methods of religious studies.

The essence of national security, the place of the religious factor in it. The inter-confessional situation in Ukraine on the eve of independence. Interdenominational tension in the context of the restoration of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church at the beginning of 1990s. Unity and diversity in Ukrainian Orthodoxy. Foreign missionaries in Ukraine as a factor of cultural and religious contradictions. Ukrainian legislation on freedom of conscience as a factor of interfaith stability. New religious currents and movements in Ukraine: problems of stigmatization and adaptation. Radical religious groups, prerequisites and contexts of their emergence ("White Brotherhood" in the 1990s). The All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations as an institutional form of interfaith cooperation in Ukraine. Ukrainian churches and the Revolution of Dignity. Ukrainian confessional pluralism as a historical-cultural phenomenon (denominationalism and the "religious market").

1. Brylov, Denys; Kalenychenko, Tetiana; Kryshtal, Andrii. The Religious Factor in Conflict. Research on the Peacebuilding Potential of Religious Communities in Ukraine. Utrecht: PAX. 2021. 32p. 2. Casanova, Jose. “Between Nation and Civil Society: Ethnolinguistic and Religious Pluralism in Independent Ukraine”, Democratic Civility: The History and Cross-Cultural Possibility of a Modern Political Ideal, ed. Robert W. Hefner, New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1998: pp. 203-228. 3. Wawrzonek, M. “Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church as an agent of the social life in Ukraine”, Baltic Worlds 2020, vol.XIII:2-3, pp.113-124. 4. Wawrzonek, Michal; Becus, Nelly and Mirella Korzeniewska-Wiszniewska. Orthodoxy Versus Post-Communism? Belarus, Serbia, Ukraine and the Russkiy Mir, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016: pp.37-70, 261-227.

Lectures, seminars, independent work

The semester number of points is formed by the points received by the student in the process of mastering the material from all topics of the academic discipline. The overall semester grade consists of points obtained for 1) classroom work (oral answers, participation in discussions during classroom classes); 2) independent written work; 3) final control work.

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