The Seminar Room | Ihor Vasylyshyn on the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church during the period of Soviet persecution

In this seminar room, dr. Ihor Vasylyshyn of Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv) gives a presentation is focused on the peculiarities of worship and prayer books used by the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church during the period of Soviet persecution 1946-1989. An additional topic is the role of Western media in support of this church. It is also partly a personal memoir of the years of the speaker's childhood and adolescence.

This is the second seminar (of four) in the series "The Many Guises of European Catholicism", that the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies is organising with support from the Centre for European Studies at Lund University.

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Religion and Theology is produced by Joel Kuhlin for the Center for Theology and Religious Studies.

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Music for R&T is generously provided by the trio Nous (Thomas Hellsten, Tom Tveita, Per Boqvist).