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Thesis research is devoted to the development of the conceptual framework for
improving the documentation of the activities of the Orthodox religious organizations
of Ukraine in the conditions of globalization of the online communication space.
The complex use of socio-communicative, systemic-functional, historical
approaches allowed the candidate for a degree establishing the specific properties of
religious communication; levels and directions of communication interaction of
religious organizations, components of the system of documentation support of their
religious and extra cult activities; investigating arrangement and technological
problems and prospects of development of online documentation of the activities of
religious organizations; identifying effective channels and means of online church
communications that are aimed at improving the performance of religious documents in
modern society.
The sectorial subsystem of religious documentation has specific properties that are
conditioned by the high degree of uniqueness, sacredness and autonomy of religion as a
spiritual sphere of social life. The main types of documents of this subsystem reflect the
content of the religious activities of religious institutions, the implementation of their
social functions (church books and extracts from them, marriage searches, clergy
records, confessional bonds, liturgy journals, census lists of priests and clergy and their
children, documents about schismatics etc.). Church books form the largest group of
documents. During centuries acts of religious registration of the civil status of believers
(baptism, wedding, and burial) were recorded in them. Therefore, they serve as a
valuable historical source, and have legal and demographically-statistical functions.
The specific properties of religious communication are determined by the
peculiarities of the subject scope of activities of religious organizations and are
characterized by sacredness, the dominance of oral communication during liturgy, strict
regulation of ceremonial acts, and certain conservatism. Communication links between
the subjects of church and religious activity generate a document flow, the type-specific
structure of which is determined by two main directions of church activity - religious
and extra cult.
The perspective project of development of the system of documentation support of
Orthodox religious organizations, which has organizational, technological and resource
components, was developed and substantiated. It envisages for the establishment of an
online document management system with the «online office», «online archive»
subsystems that are aimed at improving the online documentation of Orthodox religious
organizations in conditions of Internet communication space.
The scientific novelty of the obtained results of the dissertation research lies in the
fact that for the first time in the domestic document science a theoretical attempt was
made for adapting the means of documentary and religious communications to the
modern requirements of the information society in order to improve the system of
online documentation of Orthodox religious organizations. Also, the specific features of
religious communication were characterized in a complex way for the first time;
features of type-specific composition of systems of infrastructure and sectorial religious
documentation, basic types of religious administrative documents; the content and
typological constituents of the document content of websites of religious organizations
of Christian religious denominations were determined.
The practical importance of the obtained results lies in the fact that the results of
the dissertation research can be used for the arrangement and systematizing the
documentary infrastructure in the activity of religious educational institutions of the
religious education system of Ukraine, in the direction of developing modern means
and technologies of online church communications; in scientific research in the field of
documentary and archival studies, in the system of advanced training of informational
and business-administrative activities. |
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