Religious Liberty and the Ukrainian State: Nationalism Versus Equal Protection
In: Brigham Young University Law Review, Jg. 1995 (1995), S. 321
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Mikhail Gorbachev's Perestroika bequeathed to the successor republics of the former Soviet Union a reform commitment toward full religious liberty. 1 The religious liberty laws enacted during the Perestroika Era by the Soviet government and its subordinate republics were retained by the new post-Soviet independent states in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus'. 2 More liberal policies toward religious activity resulted, however, in the rise of a number of new confessions in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus' and some of the other post-Soviet states. Nationalist forces began to demand the state protection of the traditional churches in Russia and Ukraine against this expanding religious pluralism, by pressing for amendments to the original enactments on religious liberty. 3 This essay analyzes the rise of freedom of conscience in Ukraine and the subsequent nationalist retreat from full religious liberty during the three-year period, 1991-1994. The "Law On the Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organizations" (1991), and the "Amendments of December 23, 1993," will be examined together with the function of the Council for Religious Affairs of Ukraine during that period. These official Ukrainian materials will be evaluated by relating them to the provisions on religious liberty of several international treaties to which the Government of Ukraine is a signatory. 4 I. THE UKRAINIAN RELIGIOUS MOSAIC AND THE SOVIET LEGACY The history of Ukrainian religiosity has been somewhat more complex than that of Russia. While Russian culture is historically associated with one dominant church, Ukrainian culture draws from several major traditional faiths: ...
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Religious Liberty and the Ukrainian State: Nationalism Versus Equal Protection
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Biddulph, Howard L. |
Zeitschrift: | Brigham Young University Law Review, Jg. 1995 (1995), S. 321 |
Veröffentlichung: | 1995 |
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