I.Franko on the Origin of Religious Faith

• Main Author: Svitlana B. Kapran
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Ukrainian Association of Researchers of Religion (UARR) 2006-02-01
• Series: Українське Pелігієзнавство
• Online Access: https://uars.info/index.php/uars/article/view/1721

The Franco-religious scholar and Franco-philosopher still remains little known, despite the fact that his works on such issues have long been published. If in Soviet times he was considered a materialist, revolutionary-democrat, atheist, and anti-clerical, nowadays such topics are simply avoided. One of the most recent fundamental studies in the field of religious studies is the ethnology of religion. The author of the monograph and a number of publications on this topic, Lyudmila Fylypovych, states that Ivan Franko's contribution to the study of ethno-religious problems is determined not only by the fact that he gave general theoretical definitions of religion, ethnicity, nation, ethno-confessionality, examined the history of ethno-confessional relations, and analysis , but also offered new methodological approaches to understanding the content and meaning of the historical process.