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Cultural-religious tourism, as part of cultural tourism, seems to register an increase today, especially with regard to unholy/ secular monuments with a special historical load or with special architecture. This category includes the northern area of Romania, Maramures, where there are not less than 8 wooden churches in the UNESCO Heritage. Besides these there are other religious monuments. Using this monument from the touristic point of view requires an entire infrastructure. Thus, the study aims to find the nece...

The article deals with classicism as a modern stylistic and aesthetic phenomenon. The authors give a retrospective analysis of some stylistic choices within the artistic culture of the 20th and 21st centuries. The study considers such phenomena as Neoclassicism of the early 20th century, Neoclassicism in the framework of strengthening totalitarianism of the 1930s, neoclassical presence in the context of the International Style of the 1940s-60s, Postmodern classicism of the 1980s, classical retrospections of the 20...

The article represents a concept of the new civilizational and cultural paradigm in the process of formation. Determined by the coexistence of two strong types of cultures with the opposite focuses, this new paradigm designates the two cultural types by the indicators "Retro" and "Future" accordingly. Here we describe the specifics of each civilizational and cultural type. In particular, this work proves the necessity of preserving the fundamental "status quo" of these civilizational and cultural types. This neces...

In the current research, we analyse the displacement of the church from the village Timiseni to the “Dimitrie Gusti” National Village Museum (Bucharest) as being part of the environmental conflicts which resulted after the exploitation of coal in the Carboniferous Basin Rovinari. The old community of free village people, called in the Romanian language “Mosneni”, from the village Timi?eni had been surviving over the centuries because they were placing all they had more precious, treasures and hopes for a better fu...

The paper is devoted to the analysis of constructing a new concept “politeness” in the Soviet culture in the 1930s. The methodology of the paper is based on V. Volkov’s and S. Fitzpatrick’s ideas about mastering culture by the Soviet people. Principles of new Soviet politeness are revealed, and main etiquette situations typical for children’s everyday life are characterized (communications with classmates, teachers, parents, behaviour in public transportation, sports events) on the materials of the popular newspap...

Cultural studies address a wide range of phenomena. Among others, they deal with heritage research combining methodologies adopted in the sciences (chemistry, physics) and the humanities (art history, archival studies). Heritage studies give us a new insight into material history, history of economy, socio-economic topics and local community. The example of Gierczyn (formerly Giehren) – a small Silesian village in Poland, close to the Polish-Czech border, once part of the Kingdom of Bohemia (until 1740/42), Prussi...

A contemporary multicultural society needs multiculturally educated teachers who are able to pass on their knowledge to the pupils. Teaching foreign languages should educate individuals not only from the linguistic point of view but also in cultural terms. Culture is a specific feature of every country. It includes music, paintings, sculptures, films, architecture, etc. The presence of the Culture Studies in teaching foreign languages develops three basic levels: pupils' empathy and understanding, factual knowledg...

The article summarizes the results of national surveys conducted in three Russian cities (Moscow, Yekaterinburg, and Chelyabinsk). Based on the results of the study, the article provides the overview how contemporary youth in Russia percepts the ideas about the cultural and historical path of Russia, the value field of actual Russian culture (moral guidelines, the basis of integration, spiritual unity) and priorities of the state cultural policy. The authors point out the key trends in the self-determination of mo...

We are confident that the science and art of highlighting and processing native talents develop as knowledge accumulates. In this study, we aim to analyze the relationship between the volume of musical knowledge and the professional experience of the participants in the research. The sample consists of students from the School of Music, Theatre and Visual Arts. Music has the role of influencing and stimulating self-knowledge, authentic values, the transformation of consciousness. These are instruments with which p...

The relevance of the article is due to the important cultural-forming importance of ethnic festivals and their influence on the continuity of spiritual values in the modern cultural environment. The author's understanding of new directions in the subject of creative works arising under the influence of forms and technologies of the ethnic festival is given. The research of domestic and foreign authors is presented. The aim of the work is to analyze the influence of the ethnic festival on the development of Amateur...

Festivities are one of the most stable forms of spiritual culture, which nowadays undergo significant transformations: the spectrum of festivities, their functions, traditions, the attitudes of people and their knowledge about the festive culture are changing. The influence of western European festivities is another significant trend that has become evident in contemporary Latvia. The research analyses the specificity of the perception of Halloween in the south-eastern region of Latvia – Latgale (the major object ...

The existence of material traces with special cultural value in a certain geographic area could lead to a certain profile of the locality, so as to extend the functional area after them. In our study we are making an analysis of all the locations situated along the Danube, where the traces of the ancient fortresses of antiquity and also of the medieval period prove the intense life of the past, and we are investigating to what extent they constitute today tourist attractions, or participate in the local cultural p...

It is an increasingly widespread view that the Roma are a specific and unique ethnic group, since they do not have a state and have never been at war; moreover, most of them preserve their ethnic (Roma) identity, refuse to merge into the majority society and actually intend to never give up themselves for the mainstream society. The research focused on superstitions about an important turning point in human life, i.e. on superstitions related to death, as deaths affect people and the fate of a tight community (esp...