Religion, State, Society, and Identity in Transition
Ukraine
No book is one is not an exception. It would have not become a reality without dynamic partnership of an excellent team of international scholars, researchers and leading specialists from Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Ukraine, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, United Kingdom, and the United States of America. On behalf of the editors, we greatly acknowledge the authors of the current volume Religion, State, Society, and Identity in Transition: Ukraine
for their participation in this publishing project. The diversity factor of this publication is precisely what makes it to stand apart: being diverse in perspectives, fields of study and stages of expertise, authors united together in this publication to provide a transdisciplinary perspective on the questions of religion, state, society, and identity in Ukraine (and within Ukrainian studies area) and the transitional processes happening now. It should be mentioned that opinions expressed in the volume are personal views of authors who do not always share the same perspective and editors cannot be hold respons historical perspectives, of fields of study and levels of expertise makes this publication to take a prominent place in the academic community. This volume is a product of three academic projects united together in one publication. First, on behalf of the editors we gratefully acknowledge the authors of the current volume who participated in the Series of Academic Events on Ukraine
organized in the Netherlands in 2014. It included two individual lectures and international symposium Ukrainian Identity: A Transdisciplinary Perspective hosted by University of Amsterdam
on 7 May 2014. In this regards, we express our gratitude to Amsterdam Ukrainian Research Institute (AURI), Amsterdam Institute for Cultural History (AICH), Amsterdam School for Heritage and Memory Studies (ASHMs), Amsterdam Center for Heritage & Identity (ACHI), II Department of Slavic Languages and Cultures at University of Amsterdam, Duitsland Institute Amsterdam (DIA), History and Art History Department at Utrecht University, and Stichting Platform Samenwerking Nederland-Oekrane for coordination and partial financial sponsorship of this part of the project. We greatly acknowledge the participation partners and speakers from Amsterdam Ukrainian Research Institute, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, Leiden University, Protestantse Theologische Universiteit Amsterdam, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Ukrainian Catholic University, Universiteit van Tilburg, University of Alberta, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Catholic Eparchy of Saint Vladimir-Le-Grand de Paris. This series of the academic events in the Netherlands gave beginning to an idea to produce a publication on Ukraine under the editorship of Rob van der Laarse, Tetiana Mykhalchuk and Vitaliy V. Proshak. Here, we like to thank Mr. Makhortych for assistance in organizing the symposium and professor Rutten for the overall supervision in time of organizing and leading the symposium and professor Van der Laarse for the time he inputted in this publication by inviting additional authors and providing important comments and critics on the earlier stage of producing the volume. We especially like to express our gratitude to Ukrainian folk group Rusalka [Mermaid]from Hengelo in The Netherlands. The song and dance performance of the group introduced the visitors of the symposium to the beauty and depth of Ukrainian folk culture and we are sincerely thankful for this wonderful treat! Second, we gratefully acknowledge the authors of the current volume who participated in the project edited by Mykhailo N. Cherenkov, Vitaliy V. Proshak and Tetiana Mykhalchuk. In this regards we express our gratitude to participation partners from Amsterdam Ukrainian Research Institute, Catholic University of Leuven, Collège....
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements .................................................................................................. I
Figures ................................................................................................................... IX
Tables .................................................................................................................... IX
Abbreviations ........................................................................................................ XI
Participating Universities.................................................................................... XIII
Introduction:
Religion, State, Society, and Identity in Transition ......................... 1
Vitaliy V. Proshak
Part I: History, Culture and Identity
................................................................. 171. The Missing Skeleton: Understanding the Identities of Kyivan Rus' ................ 19
Serhii Plokhy
2. Early Modern Foundations of Ukrainian Identity: The Political Culture ofCossack Ukraine .................................................................................................... 33
Zenon E. Kohut
3. One or More Ukraines? ..................................................................................... 47
Marc Jansen
4. Mykola Hohol in the Canon of Ukrainian and Russian Cultures....................... 69
Pavlo V. Myhed
5. Transition and Reconciliation between Western and Eastern Europethrough Unintentional Mediator ............................................................................ 89
Tetiana Mykhalchuk
Part II: Memory, History and Tragedy
........................................................... 123
6. Episcopal Letters from Paris: In Memory…
.................................................... 125
Mgr. Borys Gudziak
7. Holodomor and Gorta Mór: Famines, Historiographies and Memories inIreland and Ukraine ............................................................................................. 131
Christian Noack
8. Ukrainian Identity In L‘viv (Lemberg/ Lwów/ Lvov): From The Habsburg
Myth To
Banderstadt
? ......................................................................................... 181
Delphine Bechtel
VI
9. Ukrainian Nationalism as Seen Through Dutch Eyes : The Case of theDutch Officers Helped by UPA in World War II ................................................ 203
John M. Stienen
10. Traumatic Memories: From Holodomor to Maidan ...................................... 219
Iryna Starovoyt
11. Identity, Memory and New Media: Inventing the History of Ukraine inWikipedia ............................................................................................................ 241
Mykola Makhortych
Part III: Religion, Theology and Transition
.................................................... 26112. Religion and the National Idea in the Context of the Euromaydan Events .... 263
Katarina Novikova
13. Foundations of Political Theology in Ukrainian Context .............................. 281
Archimandrite Cyril (Hovorun)
14. No Revolution without Reformation: A Hegelian Reading of Maidan as aCivil and Religious Reformation ......................................................................... 299
Joshua T. Searle
15. Protestantism and Protest: Socio-Theological Re-Identification ofUkraine and Ukrainian Protestantism in the Context of Maidan ......................... 319
Mykhailo N. Cherenkov
Part IV: Religion, Church and Society
............................................................ 34316. Ukrainian Dignity Revolution as a Civil Church Locus of Action ................ 345
Oksana Horkusha and Liudmyla Fylypovych
17. "Project Ukraine" - Christian Churches in Ukraine and their Relations1991-2014 ............................................................................................................ 357
Alfons Brüning
18. Churches at Euromaidan: In Search for Leadership ...................................... 395
Olena Panych
19. ―Missiology after Maidan‖: A Chance for Ukrainian Protestants
................. 415
Mykhailo N. Cherenkov
20. A Reaction of Russian Churches on Ukrainian Crisis: A Prophecy ofDemocracy ........................................................................................................... 435
Roman Lunkin
VII
Part V: International Relations, Human Rights and Law
............................. 47721. Russia/Ukraine: From War to Peace. The Steps of Reconciliation. .............. 479
Antoine Arjakovsky
22. Bridge, Buffer-Zone or Battleground? The Dynamics of UkrainianForeign Policy under Presidents Kravchuk and Kuchma .................................... 505
Nienke de Deugd
23. Reviving Stereotypes?: Visual Framing of Ukraine
‘s Crisis in the
Western Press (case-study New Zealand) ............................................................ 523
Natalia Chaban, Eva Brown and Iana Sabatovych
24. ―Svoboda‖ in the Context of Contemporary Ukrainian Challenges:
Complex Past, Promising Present, Vague Future? .............................................. 571
Sergiy Kurbatov and Alla Marchenko
25. A Tension between Church Autonomy and the Protection of ReligiousMinorities. Discussion on the Situation in Eastern Europe and the Case Lawof the European Court of Human Rights ............................................................. 599
Y.N.M. Zeinstra-Kuijs
26. Human Rights to Freedom to Religion, Expression, Association andEducation in Ukraine: Contemporary Situation and Challenges ......................... 621
Vitaliy V. Proshak
Afterwords:
The Ukrainian Exodus ................................................................... 657
Mykhailo N. Cherenkov
Bibliography ........................................................................................................ 673
Personalia ............................................................................................................ 745
INDEX ................................................................................................................. 753
Clik Hear