Maidan as the centerpiece of Ukrainian civil religion

Abstract

It would seem that now in clarifying the ratio of such social manifestations of how the Church and the Maidan have a special complexity for a scientist, and even then everyday thinking person, no. The Church in the broad sense of this phenomenon as a religious organization, and not in the narrow-Orthodox, that supposedly the only proper institution for him, was in her various denominations expressions present on the Maidan, and now, except for communities non-Ukrainian Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate, Gregorian Armenians, Seventh-day Adventists with their Eurasian orientation and some communities of Muslims, Ruthenians (supporters, say, Ukrainian-viewer Kurovsky), is along with Ukrainian fighters in some trenches in their struggle in the east of the country with n fascist invaders and Donetsk separatists.