Religious Centers of Halichina: From Spiritual Centers to the Forts of National Identity and Psychological Rehabilitation
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Statement of the problem. Galicia, a historical and cultural region of Ukraine, has always been known for its rich religious life. Religious centers in this region acted not only as places of worship, but also as important centers of cultural, social and national life. This article examines the evolution of religious centers in Galicia, from their emergence as spiritual centers to the modern understanding of their role as rafts of national identity and places of psychological rehabilitation. The relevance of the article is determined by the specifics of the influence of spiritual life on the formation of statehood and national identity. Over the last decade, there has been a strong outburst of scientific and public interest in the history of the Christianization of Ukraine, the church, religious traditions, and the Galician spiritual tradition needs the most research. The purpose of the article is to determine the role of the Galician Metropolis in the spiritual worldview, value orientations and how they reflect and transform the sacred space of the transcendent and influence people's lives. The novelty of the article is determined by the fact that, for the first time, the national peculiarities of the sacred heritage of Galicia, their influence on the value-moral and psychological potential and anthropological peculiarities of the formation of religious objectification of the Western region of Ukraine have been deeply investigated. Today, when Ukraine is facing new challenges of the religious, philosophical, political, and economic dimensions, it is very important to show the role of valuable, sacralized, transcendent factors in the formation of national sakrumy through the study of the problems of spiritual heritage. This article asserts that the worldview-mental core of the philosophy and esthetosphere of Ukrainian national culture is visualized in sacred places, which are the basis of spirituality and value identity of the region. It was found that they have not only an original, unique cultural content and form, but also their own spiritual territory, where they affirm and reveal the traditional values of the metaphysics of culture. Where a person correlates himself with fundamental spiritual values, the Absolute, with higher meanings, national shrines.
Source: Academia Polonica.
DOI: 10.23856/6623
Authors: Nadiia Rusko, Liubomyr Andrusiv
Language: English
Topic: Religious Tourism and Spaces
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4405790579