Nadiya P. Religiosity in Ukrainian Society: determinants and characteristics of the contemporary situation.

This work investigates religiosity in the post-socialist Ukraine identifying the determinants and major characteristics of the contemporary situation in the field. There are identified determinants at the mega-, macro and micro levels. The existing empirical data show the contemporary religiosity an inhomogeneous, constantly developing polyfunctional and multi-confessional (Christian tradition dominates) phenomenon. There is a certain contradiction between its rapid development in quantitative terms and the stagnation in qualitative terms. The evolution of religiosity was marked by "abstractisation" of the idea of supernatural as well as the development of ethical norms and the religious etiquette, active development of religiosity out of confession or church, de-centralisation of religious postulates and religious "time-serving".