Commemorating the Christianization of Kyivan Rus', 1888-2013
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This was an active year for public lectures organized by the Program on Religion and Culture. The annual Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture was held on 19 September 2013 as a small symposium on the topic, “Commemorating the Christianization of Kyivan Rus', 1888-2013.” <br /><br />Professor Viktor Yelensky, a leading Ukrainian sociologist of religion from the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv) and the Drahomanov National Pedagogical University (Kyiv), spoke on “Religion and Politics: The Significance of the Ukrainian Commemoration of the 1025th Anniversary of the Christianization of Rus'.” <br /><br />The director of the program, Heather Coleman, spoke on the subject “Making a National Saint in the Southwest Borderland: St. Volodymyr, Local History, and the First Celebration of the Christianization of Rus' in Kyiv in 1888.” <br /><br />Professor Yelensky's visit was part of a larger speaking tour of Edmonton, Calgary, and Toronto, sponsored by CIUS, together with the Calgary Friends of the Ukrainian Catholic University, the Ukrainian Canadian Professional and Business Association of Calgary, the Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation, and the St. Volodymyr Brotherhood in Toronto. <br /><br />Heather Coleman speaks at 6:45. Viktor Yelensky speaks at 48:35.
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September 19, 2013
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The Making of an Opera: On the Eve of Ivan Kupalo
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CIUS seminar audio.<br /><br />On October 20, 2011, Anna Pidgorna (Department of Music, University of Calgary), gave a seminar on the topic: “The Making of an Opera: On the Eve of Ivan Kupalo” (co-sponsored by the Peter and Doris Kule Centre for Ukrainian and Canadian Folklore).<br /><br />Found in <a href="http://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1619">CIUS <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">Newsletter 2012</span></a>
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October 20, 2011
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The Mechanics of Building the First Catholic University on the Territory of the Former Soviet Union
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CIUS seminar audio. <br /><br />On November 23, 2007, Rev. Borys Gudziak of Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, gave the annual Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture on the topic: “The Mechanics of Building the First Catholic University on the Territory of the Former Soviet Union.”<br /><br />Found in <a href="http://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1615">CIUS <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">Newsletter 2008</span></a>
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November 23, 2007
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Ivan Vyshensky and the Religious Polemics of the Seventeenth Century
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CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. <br /><br />On March 12, Dr. Taras Zakydalsky, who is currently associated with the Institute's Ukrainian Encyclopedia Project, gave the seminar, "Ivan Vyshensky and the Religious Polemics of the Seventeenth Century." Vyshensky's ascetic worldview was the source of practical solutions to the problems confronting the Orthodox Church in Ukraine at the turn of the seventeenth century. Believing that this life should be renounced for the sake of salvation, he denounced the love and pursuit of luxury, secular knowledge, and power. Since the Orthodox faith and the keeping of Christ's commandments were sufficient to salvation, each man was responsible for his own fate. All Christians, according to Vyshensky, were equal before God; hence, the faithful laity had the right to elect new priests and bishops to replace those who had joined the Union with Rome in 1596.<br /><br />Vyshensky' s epistles from Mt. Athos were not published in his lifetime, and must have had a very limited influence on the polemics of that period. He was not a deep or original thinker, but he was a passionate and forceful writer. His language, which is close to the vernacular, and his vivid imagery make him one of the first great writers in the history of Ukrainian literature.<br /><br />Found in <a href="http://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1572">CIUS </a><span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;"><a href="http://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1572">Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 2 (Spring 1979)</a> </span>
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March 12, 1979
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The Methodist Church and Ukrainians in Canada, 1901–1925: A Study in Assimilation Policy
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CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. Part 2 audio begins at <span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;">4:45.</span><br /><br />The seminar, "The Methodist Church and Ukrainians in Canada, 1901-1925: A Study in Assimilation Policy," was given by Vivian Olender on October 23. Anglo-Celtic Canadians at the turn of the twentieth century believed Canada should develop as a homogeneous, white Anglo-Saxon and Protestant (WASP) nation; the concept of a pluralistic and multicultural society was incomprehensible. Ukrainian immigrants, in particular, were treated as members of an inferior race and culture. During this period Canadian Methodists believed WASP culture to be the Christian culture, and their church to be Church of Christ . Thus religious sanction was given to both the superiority of WASP culture and the prevailing prejudice against Ukrainians. In Methodist literature of the period, Ukrainians are described as "dirty, unkempt, and unlettered children." Ukrainians are similar in appearance to Anglo-Celts but "most of them are shorter and stouter and maybe more dark faces." They also wear a "strange attire of innumerable layers" so that it is difficult to distinguish the men from the women.<br /><br /> An extensive programme of home missions was established in Ukrainian bloc settlements on the prairies to preach the gospel of salvation by assimilation and adoption of WASP, middle-class values. Methodists concentrated on the Ukrainians because they belonged to the inferior Slavic race and were members of a decadent church. Second, Ukrainians immigrated in large numbers and were highly visible in their traditional peasant clothes. Third and most important, Ukrainians settled in large bloc colonies which hindered assimilation. Methodists were concerned that the unassimilated Ukrainians would use the power of their vote to bring Canada down to the Ukrainian level.<br /><br /> Converts who joined the Methodist church were alienated from their fellow Ukrainians because they were compelled to accept the WASP lifestyle and with it, a condemnation of Ukrainian culture. Ukrainians considered these individuals to be traitors. Ironically, the main result of the Methodist home mission programme was to reinforce the identification of Ukrainian ethnicity with the Ukrainian Catholic or Orthodox churches.<br /><br />Found in <a href="http://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1571">CIUS </a><span style="font-size:13px;color:#000000;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;font-family:Arial;font-style:normal;"><a href="http://cius-archives.ca/items/show/1571">Newsletter Vol 3 Issue 1 (Winter 1978)</a> </span>
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October 23, 1978
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Oleksander Baran and Oleh V. Gerus, eds. <br /><em>Zbirnyk Tysiacholittia Khrystyianstva v Ukraini, 988-1988</em>/ <br />Oleh W. Gerus and Alexander Baran, eds. <br /><em>Millennium of Christianity in Ukraine, 988-1988</em>
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Winter 1994
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