TY - JOUR AU - Kostashchuk, Ivan PY - 2020/06/02 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Religious component of ethnocultural development of polyetnic region of Chernivtsi oblast JF - Human Geography Journal JA - HGJ VL - 28 IS - 0 SE - DO - 10.26565/2076-1333-2020-28-06 UR - https://periodicals.karazin.ua/socecongeo/article/view/15994 SP - 51-63 AB - In this article the author considers territorial differences in the formation of the religious component of ethnocultural development of Chernivtsi oblast, which is distinguished by its ethnical contact, polyethnicity and transboundariness. Its territory is home to more than 130 ethnic groups, and Ukrainians, Romanians and Moldovans border on densely populated areas. Also unique is the fact that there are two historical and geographical regions of Ukrainians – Northern Bukovina and Northern Bessarabia, as well as parts of the Romanian historical and geographical region – Dorogoy region. In the territory of Northern Bukovina, namely in its mountainous parts, the population belongs to the ethnographic group – Hutsuls, who formed and preserved their ethnic culture.The years of Ukraine’s independence have been marked by complex transformational processes that happened in many spheres of society: changes in state institutions, political system, property issues, ethnocultural development of the regions, and so on. The moral principles and priorities of both society as a whole and the individual began to differ significantly from the values ​​of the previous generation. There have been radical changes in the religious sphere, as an integral part of the life of any society, one of the important social institutions of the Ukrainian people. The functions and social significance of religion have changed to some extent. Thus, S. Zdioruk defines the social significance of religion "not only by its spiritual or metacultural influence, but also by active political, social and economic activities both in the process of ethnogenesis and the creation and development of the state." This usually indicates the importance of taking into account the religious factor in the formation of regional development, including ethnocultural, which is the basis for the development of tourism, arts, culture and other sectors of the economy.The article deepens the theoretical and methodological principles of socio-geographical study of ethnocultural development, analyzes the religious component, traces the influence of territory formation and other historical factors on the formation of religious space, its material and spiritual component. ER -