The webinar was hosted by the ICLRS Blog “Talk About: Law and Religion” and Orthodox Christianity Studies Center—Fordham University on October 29, 2024. Webinar panelists discussed political, legal, social, and theological aspects of Ukraine’s recent law No 3894 banning the Russian Orthodox Church and religious organizations affiliated with the ROC.

Timeline:

00:05 – The law and the framework of decolonization (Jose Casanova / Catherine Wanner)

42:04 – War as an exceptional situation for religious legislation (Elizabeth A. Clark / Marietta van der Tol)

1:10:25 – The Ukrainian law banning the Russian Orthodox Church as a legal text (Dmytro Vovk / Maksym Vasin)

1:39:52 – “Push to dialogue”: Can the law support interchurch relations? (Regina Elsner / Pavlo Smytsnyuk)

2:07:23 – Bottom-up initiatives: What the impact has the law on grassroots dialogue initiatives (Tetiana Kalenychenko / Serhii Bortnyk)

2:38:22 – Is the Ukrainian Orthodox Church a part of the Russian Orthodox Church? (Thomas Bremer / Nicholas Denysenko)