BRAMA, Jan 10, 2004, 10:00 am ET
Press Release
CIUS Press is pleased to announce the book of the month for January 2004:
The Ukrainian Religious Experience:
Tradition and the Canadian Cultural Context
edited by David Goa
xiv, 244 pp., photos
ISBN 0920862632
Afterword by Jaroslav Pelikan
Sale price (40% off): $20.97 (reg. $34.95) (cloth) - Sale expires 31 January 2004
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About this Title
This title represents the proceedings of the first scholarly conference to examine the Ukrainian religious experience in Canada. Sixteen scholarly essays explore liturgical traditions, ecclesiastical traditions, historical factors in the maintenance of religion and ethnicity, along with case studies.
A fascinating fourteen page essay "What Really Happened in 988?" by Omeljan Pritsak quotes pertinant excerpts from the old Kievan chronicle
Povist vremynnykh lit
describing Volodymyr the Great's investigation of all four monotheistic religions, Greek Catholicism (Eastern Christianity), Roman Catholicism (Western Christianity), Islam, and Judaism.
Other essay titles include "The Vatican, Kremlin and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church", "A Study in the Ethnic Use of Religious Symbols", and "The Role of the Patriarchal Movement in the Ukrainian Catholic Church". Contributors include Andrii Krawchuk, Bohdan Bociurkiw, Vasyl Markus, Vivian Olender, Sophia Matizasz, Radoslav Zuk and others.
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CIUS Press
is the largest publisher of English-language material about Ukraine. It is the publishing arm of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta and the University of Toronto. The emergence of Ukraine as an independent state has focused general and scholarly interest on Ukrainian studies, and CIUS Press is meeting that interest and need with a sizeable offering of new, forthcoming, and already published books.
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