This volume explores the churches of Ukraine and their involvement in the recent movement for
social justice and dignity within the country. In November of 2013 citizens of Ukraine
gathered on Kyiv's central square (Maidan) to protest against a government that had reneged on
its promise to sign a trade agreement with Europe. The Euromaidan protest included members of
various Christian churches in Ukraine who stood together and demanded government
accountability and closer ties with Europe. In response state forces massacred over one
hundred unarmed civilians. The atrocity precipitated a rapid sequence of events: the president
fled the country a provisional government was put in place and Russia annexed Crimea and
intervened militarily in eastern Ukraine. An examination of Ukrainian churches' involvement in
this protest and the fall-out that it inspired opens up other questions and discussions about
the churches' identity and role in the country's culture and its social and political history.
Volume contributors examine Ukrainian churches' historical development and singularity their
quest for autonomy their active involvement in identity formation their interpretations of
the war and its causes and the paths they have charted toward peace and unity.
