Kobryn M. Cult ritual practices UGCC: features and trends of development

The dissertation is a philosophical study of religion transformation of cult and ritual practices of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church from its inception to the present. It has been investigated that the basis for the formation of different approaches to religious life of Greek Catholics served philosophies of Catholicism and Orthodoxy, which has incorporated Uniate Church, as an example of the "boundary" essence of existence on the "borderland". Analysis of the development of cult-ritual practices of this confession found multidirectional approaches to ritual in Church environment, which led to the formation different groups which are building their identity on the basis of cult-ritual life.