Культурологические проблемы религиоз- ной жизни украинских земель в х – XVII вв.
CULTUROLOGICAL PROBLEMS OF UKRAINIAN LAND RELIGIOUS LIFE IN THE X - XVII

Author(s): Olga Olegivna Smolina
Subject(s): Theology and Religion, Sociology of Religion, History of Religion
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: religious culture; Kyiv Orthodoxy; Ukrainian lands in X - XVII centuries; binary oppositions; Ukrainian culture
Summary/Abstract: In the theme of the religious life of the Ukrainian lands of the 10th-17th centuries, despite a significant degree of its study, discussion questions continue to arise. Their consideration from the standpoint of Cultural Studies makes it possible to pay attention to previously unseen aspects, to reveal gaps. In the light of modern complex processes of changing civilizational and axiological landmarks in Ukrainian culture, these topics have not lost their scientific relevance. Therefore, for example, there is a debatable question about the ecology of Slavic paganism, harmonious relations with the nature of the culture that it gave birth, and the miscalculations of Christianity in this area. The justification of the leading role of monasticism in Orthodoxy allows to exclude it from the charge of provocation of modern environmental problems. No less controversial is the question of the version of Christianity that was accepted by Rus’ and the specifics of the Kyiv Orthodoxy. Recognition of the difference between the basic images of Christ in the Byzantine and Slavic perceptions (G.P. Fedotov) makes it possible to identify the peculiarities of Kyiv Orthodoxy. Overall, a set of binary oppositions was the determining factor for the culture of the region in this period, the most significant of which were: terrestrial heavenly, national religious, traditional innovative, own alien, monastery world. It should be noted that their resolution was sought and was in the plane of compromise, softening the tension of the contradiction, for example, the identification of faith and the nation, the attempt to unite churches, the irrelevance of the contradiction between love of God and love for people, etc.

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