Abstract
The article highlights new books on such an outstanding figure of Ukraine of the XX century as Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky with the purpose of their popularization among humanities in general and journalistic scholars in particular. The question is about book novelties in a specific period by O. Dumanska, G. Tereshchuk, M. Perun, O. Gayova, M. Marynovych. The interest of broad sections of the researchers in the Metropolitan Andrew’s versatile activities has not disappeared to date. Since 1899, because of historical circumstances, Metropolitan A. Sheptytsky began to serve as a spiritual pastor and an ethnarch for his nation under circumstances of statelessness. This article provides a thematic review of the scientific and popular scientific researches about Metropolitan A. Sheptytsky in the period of 2015-2019 in order to attract the journalist scholars attention to the main theses and principles presented in these works. New researches on Metropolitan Andrey have been separated into two groups. Their value lies in the fact that they pay attention to the church hierarch contribution into different circles of public life – politics, economy, culture, art, etc. Thematic analysis of the study’s object in the article showed that addresses and instructions of Metropolitan Andrey within his service retain topical during the Russian hybrid war against Ukraine and the whole world. In particular, the thesis of a prominent public figure, former dissident M. Marynovych, from his new book are profoundly considered. Equally important to researchers of Ukrainian journalism history are biographical works of the above mentioned authors, in particular, their source base. It would help the researchers of a particular period to discover the social and political context in which the church press was published. The future researchers of the written heritage of Metropolitan A. Sheptytsky are tasked with displaying the value of his figure as a clever communicator with the broad social groups of that time. The source base, as it was shown in the article, is already ready for this purpose in book format – four volumes of his works (1899-1944) have been published in Lviv publishing house “Artos”. Key words: journalist, new edition, bibliography, metropolitan Andrey .
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