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The Ethnology Notebooks. 2024. № 3 (177), 510—517

UDK: 2:316.3(=161.2):[159.9+32]

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2024.03.510

THE IMPACT OF RELIGIOUS (CONFESSIONAL) IDENTITY ON CONTEMPORARY UKRAINIAN SOCIETY: PSYCHOLOGICAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE CONTEXT

STOTSKYI Yaroslav

  • ORCID: https://orcid. org/ 0000-0003-0429-8740
  • Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor,
  • Ivan Puluj Ternopil National Technical University,
  • Professor of the Department of Psychology,
  • 56 Ruska Str., 46001, Ternopil, Ukraine,
  • Contacts: e-mail: jarstotskyj@ukr.net

Abstract. Ukraine is a multi-ethnic and multi-confessional country, with a significant majority of its citizens being Christians of various denominations and Ukrainians by nationality.

Religious, and specifically confessional identity, is closely linked to national identity, and therefore the purpose of the study is to highlight this connection in the activities of the Ukra­inian Orthodox Church.

Hence, the object of the study is to reveal how religious (confessional) identity and confessional consciousness affect na­tional identity.

The subject of scientific consideration is the position of the hierarchy and parish clergy of the UOC in relation to Ukrainian society, both in the past and in the present.

The relevance of the research problem is related to the fact that the real actions of the clergy of the pro-Moscow UOC harm the national security of Ukraine, destabilize Ukrainian society in the current years of the Russian-Ukrainian war, and, through their confessional identity, have a hostile impact on the national identity of Ukrainian citizens.

The methodology of the study is based on comparative historical and systemic methods, distance and psycholinguistic analyzes, and methodological pluralism in the context of determinism.

Keywords: religious identity, confessional identity, national identity, religious consciousness, national consciousness.

Received 22.04.2024

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