Perecheida W. Weekly "Osvyta", the voice of Christian youth education: social-communicative aspect (1992-2005)

Weekly "Osvyta" (1992-2005) as a way of Christian education of youth is analyzed and researched for the first time in the theory of social communications. The research is based at the convincing principles and other media influence conceptions. Basing at quantity indexes ideological, topical and conceptional analysis, it was proved that the idea of religion and Christian education is a communicative focus of the weekly. Having analyzed this kind of weekly (chapters, style, genres), it was proved that it corresponds to it's main task of reflection of the religious problems. This thesis gives arguments to the educational power of the newspaper and it also gives the recommendations for its improvement. The publishing index of articles, in which were written the topics of religion and Christian education, is given at the supplements to the thesis.