Socio-public journalism of father Ostap Nyzhankivskyi: sociocultural dimension

Abstract

Newspaper materials on social and educational topics of the priest, composer, conductor, journalist, and social and cultural figure of the end of the 19th – first half of the 20th centuries, Fr. Ostap Nyzhankivskyi, have been analyzed in the article. His journalistic cooperation with the Lviv periodicals "Dilo," "Hospodar I Promyslovets" ("Owner and Industrialist), and "Pidhirska rada" has been considered. The thematic range of newspaper articles, which contain rich, informative material on the history of the birth of the cooperative movement in Eastern Galicia, the functioning of nationally oriented societies, particularly "Sich" and the formation of Ukrainian education, has been highlighted. The genre features of the press publications of the Fr. O. Nyzhankivskyi have been characterized. Based on the conducted scientific research, an analysis of the journalism of a Galician journalist has been carried out for the first time through the prism of socio-cultural processes that took place in Eastern Galicia at the beginning of the 20th century. The research methodology is based on a combination of general scientific and special art historical methods, in particular those from historical and cultural studies. The specified methodological approach allows us to identify and understand a significant number of sources, particularly newspaper materials from the selected magazines, which influenced the formation of the national consciousness of Ukrainian citizens. Analysis of scientific works, which covered the biography and journalistic activity of the social activist Fr. O. Nyzhankivskyi, using a historical and cultural approach, helped determine his place in the socio-cultural space of Eastern Galicia at the beginning of the 20th century. It has been established that the Galician journalist's press publications have an axiological character, which is determined by the social issues highlighted by the publicist. The value of source studies and cognitive and educational functions of socio-cultural press publications of Fr. O. Nyzhankivskyi have been studied. The article will be a reasonable basis for researchers of the role of the personality of the spiritual leader in the nation-building processes of Eastern Galicia at the end of the 19th – the beginning of the 20th centuries, as well as for culturologists and musicologists who study the role of Fr. O. Nyzhankivskyi in sociocultural processes.