Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of Volodymyr Diakiv’s scientific monograph «Folk-religious movement in the ethnic culture of Ukrainians (20–30s of the XX century)». The article examines the global context of changes in traditional beliefs and religious practices in the twentieth century. The author compares the current latest outbreaks of fanaticism and religious mobilization of Ukrainian peasants in a difficult and dramatic of interwar history period. The article also examines the policy of the Bolsheviks towards the church in the 1920s and 1930s and its evolution. The author also touches on the problem of religious tourism, which has become an important source of communication in society outside the usual print media. It is investigated that Volodymyr Diakiv became the first researcher of religious tourism in Ukrainian historiography. The author also declares that the study of this topic is the beginning and basis for the development of the most relevant anthropological research in modern Ukrainian humanities.

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