Limarenko H. Transformation of the interaction of religious and political systems on the example of Russia and Ukraine.

Dissertation examines the problem of interaction of "politics and religion", their transformational change in public life. Was analyzed "field" of interference of religion and politics - their structural and functional levels that are in the process of interaction between their functional components. Was investigated the relationship between politics and religion as differentiated forms of institutionalization of society, revealed evolutionary changes in the interaction of political and religious structures and historical development of Russia and Ukraine. It is reported that as a result of contradictory dialectic process of secularization of religion and sacralization of politics appears phenomenon of religious and political syncretism. It is reported that in tsarist Russia occurs the process of gradually governmentalization church. It is emphasized that the Soviet model of state-church relations at its core was the command and administrative. It is reported that among the leading trends in relations between religion and politics in modern Ukrainian society observed the tendency to establishment of religious and political syncretism.