CHERNOVITS EVANGELICAL RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY AS A COMPONENT OF BUKOVYNEAN RELIGIOUS PALETTE FORMATION, DEVELOPMENT AND IMPORTANCE IN CULTURAL DIVERSITY OF THE REGION Cover Image

ЧЕРНІВЕЦЬКА ЄВАНГЕЛЬСЬКА РЕЛІГІЙНА ГРОМАДА ЯК СКЛАДОВА РЕЛІГІЙНОЇ ПАЛІТРИ БУКОВИНИ: СТАНОВЛЕННЯ, РОЗВИТОК, ЗНАЧЕННЯ У КУЛЬТУРНОМУ РОЗМАЇТТІ РЕГІОНУ
CHERNOVITS EVANGELICAL RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY AS A COMPONENT OF BUKOVYNEAN RELIGIOUS PALETTE FORMATION, DEVELOPMENT AND IMPORTANCE IN CULTURAL DIVERSITY OF THE REGION

Author(s): Natalia Masian
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Geography, Regional studies, Modern Age, Recent History (1900 till today), Other Christian Denominations
Published by: Видавництво ВДНЗ України « Буковинський державний медичний університет »
Keywords: protestants; evangelical religious community; Lutheran church; school; society; document;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of research is investigation of the reasons of evangelical religious community origin, its influence at cultural and educational development of Bukovina is a great significance for understanding the impact of segment of multicultural area on modern worldview of religious and cultural variety of region. The article basis is made on the documents of the archived funds of Evangelic religious community of Chernivtsi, Bukovynean regional administration, Chernivtsi city magistracy, researches of the Austrian historians and researchers of a particular region of Johann Polek, Kornelij Kozak, Eduard Fisher about protestantism on Bukovyna and history of development of Chernivtsi evangelic community. Especially valuable information is got from the statistical reports of the Bukovynean regional administration, results of censuses of population of Bukovyna in relation to intensity of distribution of evangelists, from documents about regulation activity of community and any associations of members of community, that open educator, their cultural and educational and social meaningful activity. The Community united christians-evangelists that lived in cities Chernivtsi, Kizman, Sadagura, suburbs of Rosh and Kalichanka, villages of Molodia, Tarashany, Szuchka and Lashkivka and entered in the complement of Chernivtsi evangelic parsonage. There were used such research methodologies like descriptive – generalization of sources; comparative – for analysis, synthesis and generalization of scientific theories. Scientific novelty consists in determining the role of evangelical community to form a multireligious and multi-ethnicity of our region. Conclusions. There were traditionally many different confessions in Bukovyna: orthodoxy, catholicism, old believer, judaism and other. The migration movement to Bukovyna, first of all for people of Germans originally, which was initiated by Austrian government in the end ХVIII of century by a grant to them of certain rights and freedoms, in particular in using protestant religion, resulted in a volume, that in the second half of ХІХ of century protestantism became the third after Orthodoxy and catholicism because of importance by the constituent of religious palette of Bukovyna. Evangelical religious community contributed to the spread of the reformation achievements in multi-ethnic community in Bukovina. By its activity community contributed to the implementation of initiatives to open and develop educational, commercial, industrial, religious and healthcare institutions, which had a positive impact on the development of the region in general.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 73-80
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Ukrainian