Problems of Digital Perceiving and Preservation of Living Cultural Heritage in Bulgarian Christian Religious Practices
Liana Galabova
pp. 152 - 171
 
Title: Problems of Digital Perceiving and Preservation of Living Cultural Heritage in Bulgarian Christian Religious Practices
Authors: Liana Galabova

Abstract: Contemporary technological mediation of the perceiving of Christian religious practices raises new questions of cultural interpretation, related to re-conceptualisation of participation in church life and belonging to Bulgarian traditional confessions. Unpopularity of cultural value of documenting of living religious heritage creates polemics about the opportunity of photographing and filming in sacred spaces, exposing of observed church events in media and direct transmission from sacral sites also during creation of church art and practicing of other religious rituals. Therefore attempts to balance ethnic, confessional and liturgical dimensions with tourist and public interests in accordance to global development of that discussion and potential effects of stability or instability of emerging new traditions, deserve scholarly attention.

Keywords: Digitalisation, Living Heritage, Christianity, Religious Practices, Heritage Perceiving, Heritage Preservation, Church Arts

Received: 01-10-2019     Accepted: 01-12-2019     Published: 01-12-2019

Citation: Galabova, L. (2019). Problems of Digital Perceiving and Preservation of Living Cultural Heritage in Bulgarian Christian Religious Practices. Cultural and Historical Heritage: Preservation, Presentation, Digitalization (KIN Journal), 5(2), ISSN 2367-8038, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 152–171. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.26615/issn.2367-8038.2019_2_016