Religion and Education in Ukraine: Historical Overview, 989-1991

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject Sociology - Religion, grade: not graded, Utrecht University, course: Religion and Education, language: English, abstract: In the present time (2010) Ukraine is going through the period of transition from historical domination of Eastern Orthodoxy to a pluralist and secular religious and social model of democratic society. The present article, which is divided into four main parts and focuses on the main historical events in the development of religious and academic life in Ukraine, seeks to provide a reader with general overview of the progress in religion and religious education in Ukraine and covers the time period from Christianization of Kievan Russ in 989 till the proclamation of independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union in 1991.