CHURCH, SPIRITUALITY, NATION: THE UKRAINIAN GREEK-CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE SOCIAL LIFE OF UKRAINE
Synopsis
The monograph of historians of the Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Uzhgorod National University and Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas highlights the ethno-cultural role of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the social life of Ukraine in the XX century. The church-religious transformations in the western region are analyzed on the base of the little-known source material. Particular attention is paid to the life of church structures after the restoration of independent Ukraine.
Chapters
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Introduction
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Part 1. The UGCC in the light of historiographical work and documents
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Part 2. The struggle for the national idea preservation as an element of the Greek-Catholic Church activity
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Part 3. Contribution to the consolidation of the State-unifying forces (first decades of the XX century)
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Part 4. Confessional-ethnic and political transformations during the Second World War (1939-1945)
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Part 5. The suffering path of the Church in the second half of the 1940s – 1980s
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Part 6. The UGCC as a church-religious institution of independent Ukraine
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Part 7. The UGCC in the System of State-Church Relations in Ukraine
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Conclusions
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References