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КАТОЛИЦЬКІ САНКТУАРІЇ В УКРАЇНІ: ПЕРСПЕКТИВИ ВИКОРИСТАННЯ В ТУРИЗМІ
CATHOLIC SANCTUARIES IN UKRAINE: PERSPECTIVES OF USE IN TOURISM

Author(s): Olena Anatoliyivna Stepanova
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Tourism
Published by: Національна академія керівних кадрів культури і мистецтв
Keywords: Catholic sanctuaries in Ukraine; religious tourism; Catholic pilgrimage; sacred topos;

Summary/Abstract: Purpose of the article is to study the importance of using the Catholic sanctuaries of Ukraine in the tourism industry as a self-sufficient component of religious tourism. The methodology of the research consists in using the cultural-historical method in revealing the socio-cultural conditions for the formation of sanctuaries and the narrative approach to representing the functioning of individual cultural texts that highlight the tourism potential of sacred Catholic topos as suggestions for Ukrainian and foreign tourists. Scientific novelty consists in proving the importance of using Catholic sanctuaries in Ukraine in the tourism industry as a separate direction of religious tourism in the regions of our state. The imagological aspect of religious tourism in the respected Catholic tradition holy places has been explored.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 33
  • Page Range: 3-10
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Ukrainian