Churches in the Ukrainian Crisis

Andrii Krawchuk is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Sudbury, Canada. He is the author of Christian Social Ethics in Ukraine (1997) and co-editor, with Thomas Bremer, of Eastern Orthodox Encounters of Identity and Otherness (2014). His current research is on interreligious dialogue and intercultural ethics in light of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.Thomas Bremer is Professor of Ecumenical Theology, Eastern Churches Studies, and Peace Studies at the University of Münster, Germany. His history of the Russian Orthodox Church, Cross and Kremlin, was translated into English in 2013. He co-edited Eastern Orthodox Encounters of Identity and Otherness with Andrii Krawchuk (2014).

• Introduction.- Part I. Historical Background.- 1. Religion in Ukraine: Historical Background and the Present Situation; Thomas Bremer.- 2. Ukrainian Greco-Catholics: Past and Present; Yury Avvakumov.- Part II. Orthodox Autocephaly in Ukraine.- 3. Autocephaly in Ukraine: the Canonical Dimension; Paul Brusanowski.- 4. Orthodox Autocephaly in Ukraine: the Historical Dimension; Alfons Brüning.- Part III. Orthodox Identity in Ukraine.- 5. Shaping Ukrainian Identity: the Churches in the Socio-Political Crisis; Natalia Kochan.- 6. The Role of the Church in the Ukrainian Crisis: The Experience of One Parish; Lidiya Lozova.- Part IV. Interpreting the Nature and the Causes of the War.- 7. The Russian Orthodox Church and the Crisis in Ukraine; Mikhail Suslov.- 8. Interpreting the "Russian World"; Cyril Hovorun.- Part V. Paths to Unity, Co-operation, and Peace.- 9. Redefining Orthodox Identity in Ukraine after the Euromaidan; Andrii Krawchuk.- 10. Ukraine After the Euromaidan: Ecumenism vs. Religious Repression; Katrin Boeckh.