Author ORCID Identifier
0009-0008-3825-634X
Abstract
The article analyses the transformation of religious consciousness of Ukrainians during the first decade of the post-Soviet period. It identifies the socio-cultural, economic and political factors that influenced the formation of a new attitude of Ukrainian citizens towards religion. It is noted that in the 1990s, a distinction between ethnic and religious identity occurred in the religious consciousness of Ukrainians, which contributed to the rapid transformation of Ukraine from a historically Christian (mainly Orthodox) country into a poly-confessional one. During this period, new syncretic mental structures were formed, radically different from the established traditional religious ones, in which elements of different forms and types of consciousness were combined. A new socio-cultural and spiritual reality was being created, which was favourable for the pluralistic coexistence of religious systems. It is shown that the process of transformation in religious consciousness has an ambiguous assessment among Ukrainian scholars. The entry of new religious movements into Ukraine is viewed positively as an opportunity to expand the religious consciousness of Ukrainians, overcoming its isolation and limitation. The break with the autochthonic spiritual tradition became the cause of a spiritual crisis and ideological uncertainty.
Recommended Citation
Sulyatytskyy, Bogdan
(2025)
"Transformations of Religious Consciousness of Ukrainians in the 1990s,"
Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe: Vol. 45
:
Iss.
4
, Article 6.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.55221/2693-2229.2597
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/ree/vol45/iss4/6