Institutional aspect of state-religious relations in modern Ukraine
https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6339-2021-3-121-133
Abstract
The article analyzes the evolution and structure of the institutional component of state-religious relations in modern Ukraine. The article shows the prerequisites for the formation of the Government Agency for Religious Affairs in Ukraine, which are related to the specifics of the work of the Council for Religious Affairs under the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR. The article analyzes the features of the functioning of the Government Agency for Religious Affairs as a separate institution, as well as in the lower format of a department in the structure of a specialized ministry. The article shows the dependence of the status of the Government Agency for Religious Affairs and its functional powers on the priorities in the sphere of religious policy of the Presidents of Ukraine and the stages of aggravation of inter-confessional contradictions. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the State Service of Ukraine for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience, formed in 2019. The article analyzes the goals, objectives, service and regulatory functions and powers of that Service, and the prospects for its depoliticizing. It is concluded that the model of state-confessional relations in Ukraine is still not formed and is going through another stage of returning to the format of the existence of a specialized institution in charge of the religious sphere, which will not be free from the influence of political factors.
About the Author
S. P. Dontsev
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Sergei P. Dontsev, Cand. of Sci. (Political Science), associate professor
125047, Moscow, Miusskaya Sq., bld. 6
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Dontsev S.P. Institutional aspect of state-religious relations in modern Ukraine. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin Series "Political Science. History. International Relations". 2021;(3):121-133. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2073-6339-2021-3-121-133
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