The purpose of the seminar: to present the results of research conducted or to be conducted on the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on religious life, as well as the impact of religious ideologies on military escalation. To draw attention to the problems of war-affected religious communities of Ukraine.

The seminar will be online held over two days from February 24-25, 2023  (2-6pm CET), and will include a plenary and three panel sessions.

The following issues are to be discussed:

● The functioning of religious institutions within the frameworks of authoritarian (exclusivism) and democratic (pluralism) social orders, and military escalations against the background of Russia's current invasion of Ukraine. Pluralism in Ukraine`s religious life as one of the dimensions of societal resilience amid the invasion.

● Ukrainian resistance to Russian aggression is not only about the Russian-Ukrainian war. This process has an all-European scale and it has affected significantly religious communities of different countries, as well as it affects the academic community.

● Not only the war affects religion but religion also influences the war. The appeal to religious ideologies, claims, and symbols is one of the elements of propaganda and mobilization during contemporary military conflicts, and it was obviously demonstrated in the Russian-Ukrainian war.

● The war has led not only to the transformation of religious life in Ukraine, but in other countries as well, and, unfortunately, it has taken life of many religious activists, and more then 100 religious buildings have been damaged. The religious landscape of Ukraine has changed and will never be the same.