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Mykola Kulish and the Devil: Exploring the Revolution as a Demonic Phenomenon

On May 14, 2011 Dr. Marko R. Stech (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, York University, Toronto) gave the 12th Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture on the topic: "Mykola Kulish and the Devil: Exploring the Revolution as a Demonic Phenomenon"

Tags: Communism, Culture, Danylo Husar Struk Memorial Lecture, Folklore, Literature, Marko Stech, Mykola Kulish, Religion, Revolution, Socialism, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature

Part 16: Discussion directed by Jars Balan

CIUS conference audio (Part 16 of 16) Outline of presentation:What structure? (JPH)Partnerships necessary with Saskatoon and Winnipeg (the Ukrainian centers). Apply for grants in different provinces. We should strike an initiative group. (Jars…

Part 15: Customized Database for Church-Related Digital Photographs

CIUS conference audio (Part 15 of 16)Outline of presentation:Churches are not just buildings – they are also people.He is very enthusiastic about churches. He’s prepared an internet database. Admires Ed Ledohowski’s site.The evolution of his…

Part 14: Digital Databases: Examples and Sources of Funding

CIUS conference audio (Part 14 of 16)Outline of presentation:hard copy (printouts from web)Interaction of content and digital development – something that needs to be worked out. Various scholarly disciplines (religious studies, history, art history,…

Part 13: Announcements by John-Paul Himka

CIUS conference audio (Part 13 of 16) Short announcement by John-Paul Himka

Part 12: Open Discussion Directed by Frances Swyripa

CIUS conference audio (Part 12 of 16)Outline of presentation:Change of chair because JPH wanted to continue writing up the discussion.Need to do a survey of what’s already out there. (Ostap Skrypnyk)Churches were torn down, closed, burned down.…

Part 10: Technical and Photographic Aspects

CIUS conference audio (Part 10 of 16)Outline of presentation:Google Maps: Byzantine Rite Churches in Alberta. We can use a GPS unit to get exact coordinates. Google Maps gives directions. Roughly 92 GC churches, 74 Ukrainian Orthodox, 24 OCA, 22…

Part 9: Building on and Learning from What's Been Done (discussion)

CIUS conference audio (Part 9 of 16)Outline of presentation:Directed by Frances SwyripaEd Ledohowski also knows an art photographer from Massachusetts who has been taking the churches. Looking for a repository for his work.Faith vs. heritage.…

Part 8: Manitoba

CIUS conference audio (Part 8 of 16)Outline of presentation:Stella Hryniukprepared text existsHow the book they wrote, Monuments of Faith, developed. In the 1980s there was not only the problem of abandonment, but also vandalism, security, disrepair.…

Tags: Archives, Canada, Cemeteries, Chapels, Churches, Culture, Digitization, Documentation Project, Heritage, Manitoba, Prairies, Primary Sources, Religion, Roman Yereniuk, Stella Hryniuk, Tombstones, Ukrainian Canadians, Ukrainian Studies

Part 7: Prairie Churches in Manitoba

CIUS conference audio (Part 7 of 16)Outline of presentation:An overview of what’s going on in Manitoba. Has provided a cd for each participant.Manitoba did inventories, divided the province into survey districts (number), gave different kinds of…

Tags: Architecture, Archives, Canada, Cemeteries, Chapels, Churches, Culture, Digitization, Documentation Project, Ed Ledohowski, Heritage, Manitoba, Prairies, Primary Sources, Religion, Tombstones, Ukrainian Canadians, Ukrainian Studies

Part 6: Discussion

CIUS conference audio (Part 6 of 16)Outline of presentation:Interesting additional information on graveyards, crosses (much discussion of three-barred crosses). (Bohdan Hrynyshyn, Jars Balan, Andrij Hornjatkevyc, others) It is important to note that…

Part 5: Graveyards

CIUS conference audio (Part 5 of 16)Outline of presentation:Churchyards and graveyards. Renewal – examples of renewed cemeteries. They often have interesting historical information reproduced (terminology, cross shape).Physical decay. Wooden crosses…

Part 3: A Geographer’s Perspective

CIUS conference audio (Part 3 of 16)Outline of presentation:Not really an architectural historian. But he has worked a bit on Ukrainian vernacular architecture on the prairies.We should look at location, parish boundaries, site situation, spacing.…

Part 4: Why Do This?

CIUS conference audio (Part 4 of 16)Outline of presentation:This is a political action by the Canadian Ukrainian community. Multicultural policy has faded. But an important part of our heritage were Ukrainian bloc settlements, Ukrainian areas of…

Part 2: What Has Been Done?

CIUS conference audio (Part 2 of 16)Outline of presentation:Overview of the preliminary survey. Organizing principles. There’s better coverage of Alberta. Please make additions and corrections to the list (following the format of the list). We want…

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Part 1: What Is to Be Done?

CIUS conference audio (Part 1 of 16)John-Paul Himka opens the conference by outlining the goal of making sure that Ukrainian sacred culture on the prairies is well documented for future scholars and for future generations.Transcription found in this…

Ivan Zarudny and the Production of Religious Culture in Russia under Peter I

CIUS seminar audio.On December 5, 2013, Jelena Pogosjan (Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, U of A) gave a seminar on the topic: “Ivan Zarudny and the Production of Religious Culture in Russia under Peter I.”Found in CIUS Newsletter…

Tags: 18th century, Art, Baroque, Church, CIUS Seminar, Culture, Iconostasis, Ivan Zarudny, Jelena Pogosjan, Peter the Great, Religion, Russian Empire, St. Petersburg

Commemorating the Christianization of Kyivan Rus', 1888-2013

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…

Tags: 19th century, Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture, Christianity, Commemoration, Heather Coleman, Kievan Rus', Politics, Religion, St. Volodymyr, Ukraine, Viktor Yelensky

Ministers of Righteousness? Greek Catholic Clergymen and Poles and Jews during World War II

Each year, the Program on Religion and Culture.hosts the Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture. This year’s lecture, held on 6 December 2012, was given by Marco Carynnyk, who spoke on the topic, “Ministers of Righteousness? Greek Catholic Clergymen and…

Tags: 20th century, Antisemitism, Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture, Catholic, Church, Culture, Greek Catholic Church, Holocaust, Jews, Marco Carynnyk, Poland, Poles, Religion, Ukraine, Ukrainian-Jewish Relations, World War II, Worship

The Making of an Opera: On the Eve of Ivan Kupalo

CIUS seminar audio.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…

Tags: Anna Pidgorna, Art, Christianity, CIUS Seminar, Folklore, Literature, Opera, Paganism, Religion, Rituals, Songs, Ukraine

The Mechanics of Building the First Catholic University on the Territory of the Former Soviet Union

CIUS seminar audio. 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…

Tags: Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture, Borys Gudziak, Catholic Church, Christianity, Education, Lviv, Post-1991, Religion, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Ukrainian Catholic University, University

Part 3: Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox churches (cont.)

Audio recorded from CIUS conference. On 6-8 September 1991, CIUS marked the Ukrainian Canadian centenary with a conference on selected aspects of Ukrainian life in Canada in the years between 1924 and 1951. Coinciding with the release of Orest…

Tags: 20th century, Alexander Baran, Canada, Churches, Conference, Father Semen Sawchuk, Immigration, Interwar, Religion, Ukrainian Canadians, Ukrainian Catholic Church, Ukrainian Orthodox Church

Part 1: Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox churches

Audio recorded from CIUS conference.On 6-8 September 1991, CIUS marked the Ukrainian Canadian centenary with a conference on selected aspects of Ukrainian life in Canada in the years between 1924 and 1951. Coinciding with the release of Orest…

Tags: 20th century, Canada, Church, Conference, Father Semen Sawchuk, Immigration, Religion, Russel Moroziuk, Ukrainian Canadians, Ukrainian Catholic Church, Ukrainian Orthodox Church

Ivan Vyshensky and the Religious Polemics of the Seventeenth Century

CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. 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…

Tags: 17th century, Christianity, CIUS Seminar, Ivan Vyshensky, Literature, Orthodox Church, Religion, Taras Zakydalsky, Ukraine, Ukrainian Literature

The Methodist Church and Ukrainians in Canada, 1901–1925: A Study in Assimilation Policy

CIUS Seminar Audio Part 1 and 2. Part 2 audio begins at 4:45.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…

Tags: 20th century, Assimilation, Canada, Catholic Church, Christianity, Churches, CIUS Seminar, Immigrants, Methodism, Methodist Church, Orthodox Church, Religion, Ukrainian Canadians, Ukrainians, Vivian Olender

Від Римсько-Католицької Церкви до демократичної християнської громади (Мартін Лютер про духовне правління і християнську організацію) (1517-1524)

Tags: Church, History, Religion, Ю. О. Голубкін

Поганські боги східних слов’ян у світлі протофілософського ведичного комплексу Індії

Tags: History, Pagan Gods, Religion, С. П. Черняев

Черговий крок у спростуванні «чорної леґенди» про єзуїтів [Рец. на: Wkład jezuitów do nauki i kultury w Rzeczypospolitej Obojga Narodówi pod zaborami / Рod red. naukową I. Stasiewicz-Jasiukowej. —Kraków; Warszawa: WAM, 2004. — 756 s.]

Tags: History, Religion, Review, Сергій Сєряков

Обличчям до «Іншого»: релігійна громада УПЦ (МП) в соціокультурному просторі Львова

Tags: History, Lviv, Religion, Віктор Яшин

Від Яфета до Москви: створення і перетворення біблійного родоводу слов’ян у польській, українській та російській історіографії (XVI—XVIII ст.)

Tags: Church, Eastern Europe, Historiography, Poland, Religion, Russia, Ukraine, Зенон-Євген Когут

Pershyĭ Vseukraïnsʹkyĭ pravoslavnyĭ tserkovnyi sobor UAPTS 14–30 zhovtnia 1921 roku: dokumenty i materialy

The publication of the proceedings of the first Council of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, which was held in Kyiv in October 1921, contains the previously unpublished proceedings of the ecclesiastical council that laid the foundations…

Tags: Religion, Religion and Culture Program

The Bohdan R. Bociurkiw Collection:
Religion and Religious Policy
in Soviet and post-Soviet East-Central Europe,
and with materials on the Religious Experience of
Ukrainians in Canada. An inventory Guide

Krawchuk Bohdan Bociurkiw Collection.pdf

Tags: Andrii Krawchuk, Bociurkiw Library, Religion, Religion and Culture Program

Minenko Collection Inventory

Tags: Bociurkiw Library, Religion, Religion and Culture Program

Religion within the Ukrainian Populist Credo: The Enlightened Pastor Mykhailo Zubrytsky

Tags: Frank E. Sysyn, Pastor Mykhailo Zubrytsky, Religion, Ukraine

Secularization, Religion, and Superstition in the Ukrainian Carpathians: Some Findings of an Oral History Project

Tags: Leonid Heretz, Oral History, Religion, Secularization, Superstition, Ukrainian Carpathians

John-Paul Himka and Andriy Zayarnyuk, eds. Letters from Heaven: Popular Religion in Russia and Ukraine

Tags: Andriy Zayarnyuk, Catherine Wanner, John-Paul Himka, Religion, Review, Russia, Ukraine

Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture.
Andrii Krawchuk "The Impact of Russia’s Intervention in Ukraine on Muslim, Jewish, and Baptist Communities"

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The religious dimension of Russia’s war on Ukraine is significant but, as opposed to political, economic, and military factors, largely neglected. It includes the divisive effects of the war and of policies introduced by occupation authorities on…

Tags: Baptists, Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture, Community, Jews, Muslim, Post-1991, Religion, Russia, Russian-Ukrainian War, Ukraine