PECULIARITIES OF FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF RELIGIOUS-CONFESSIONAL IDENTITY OF RIGHT–BANK UKRAINE RESIDENTS IN THE LATE XVIII – EARLY XX CENTURY

The society of the Right Bank during the studied period as a whole kept agro-literate character – landowners and clergy of the region were separated from peasants by an educational barrier. The luck of education and dogmatic ignorance of the peasantry of the three rites in the region gave rise to some common cults for Western and Eastern Christian traditions. Educated residents of the region's Christian denominations had different attitudes toward each other, but were equally negative about Jews. Protestants in the region had a non-ritual non-traditional religiosity.