About the Program
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The Research Program on Religion and Culture was founded in 1994 as the Ukrainian Church Studies Program. It is devoted to the study of sacral art, architecture, and music in Ukraine and in the Ukrainian diaspora, especially in Canada.
The Program is the site of the Bohdan Bociurkiw Library, a collection which contains many unique items and documents pertaining to the Ukrainian church and serves as the basis for the program's reference library. Dr. Bociurkiw, who passed away on 1 October 1998, was one of the "founding fathers" both of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian and of the Religion and Culture Program. Every year the Program hosts the Bohdan Bociurkiw Memorial Lecture.
In cooperation with other units of the Institute, the Program has produced a number of publications and has sponsored conferences. The Program has also cosponsored visits to the University of Alberta by distinguished scholars.
The Program is directed by Dr. John-Paul Himka, a professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta, author of Religion and Nationality in Western Ukraine (Queen’s University Press 1999) and Last Judgment Iconography in the Carpathians (University of Toronto Press, 2009) as well as co-editor with Andriy Zayarnyuk of Letters from Heaven: Popular Religion in Russia and Ukraine (University of Toronto Press 2006).
