RELIGIOUS CULTURE AS A COMPONENT OF HISTORY OF UKRAINE: BASIC CONCEPTS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the disclosure of the essence of religious culture and its main components as an integral part of history, without taking into account the role, place and peculiarities of which it is impossible to form a coherent historical competence of students of 7-9th form. Inclusion of the aforementioned component in the system of historical education is possible only if the professional level of teachers in the relevant field is increased. The article presents the definitions and structural description of the basic concepts concerning the sphere of religious culture, from several positions: essential, historical, significance for the present. The materials of the article are also recommended to be used as a basis for further methodological developments of teachers. National religious culture is a self-regulating system, and although it is characterized by a high degree of traditional resistance, it has a tendency to change. The process of its self-reproduction takes place at the level of the collective unconscious or represents a purposeful act of human activity, the defining feature of which is the orientation towards maintaining the internal equilibrium. Its components are mostly determined by ideological precepts of the religious trend, but in specific interpretations they depend on the historical and cultural context. In view of the foregoing, religious culture can be considered not only as a part of social progress but also as an important example (sometimes the only surviving one) of the development, achievements, uniqueness of a certain people (in this context - Ukrainians as citizens of one state, and not just by ethnic identity).