Cultural and Historical Heritage: Preservation, Presentation, Digitalization (ISSN: 2367-8038)
Volume 4, Issue 2, 2018

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Title: Challenges of Preservation, Digitalization, and Presentation of Tangible and Intangible Bulgarian Church Heritage in the Interaction of Secularization and Desecularization Processes of 20th and 21st Centuries
Authors: Liana Galabova

Abstract: Achievements of Bulgarian state policies in the field of cultural heritage management and their various social effects in the contexts of 20th century’s dilemmas depend on the development of local echoes from global modernisation processes set in precedent centuries. Nowadays post-modern and contemporary dynamically changing realities trace cultural contexts that actualise and resacralise valuable elements from forgotten traditions, appropriately documented and passed to other generations as a potential, sometimes even as balance to dominating, but inevitably changing social trends. Proportionally to the steadily increasing scholarly and public attention devoted to the church segment of Bulgarian cultural heritage, perceived by the representatives of the traditional denomination as religious, as well as national identity, it is worth preserving the opportunity or reactualisation of such extremely marginalised and reinterpreted contents from the repository of local cultural heritage.

Keywords: Cultural Heritage, Modernization, Secularization, Desecularisation, Sacred Monuments and Sites, Eastern Orthodox Christian Church, Pilgrimage, Art

Received: 01-10-2018     Accepted: 01-12-2018     Published: 01-12-2018

Citation: Galabova, L. (2018). Challenges of Preservation, Digitalization, and Presentation of Tangible and Intangible Bulgarian Church Heritage in the Interaction of Secularization and Desecularization Processes of 20th and 21st Centuries. Cultural and Historical Heritage: Preservation, Presentation, Digitalization (KIN Journal), 4(2), ISSN 2367-8038, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 110–149