АКСИОЛОГИЧНИ АСПЕКТИ НА КАТОЛИЧЕСКАТА ВЯРА ПРИ БАНАТСКИТЕ БЪЛГАРИ

Banat Bulgarians have lived for centuries in conditions of crisis, which threatens their existence. They are still threatened by melting and extinction. Nevertheless, they retain their national and confessional self-awareness and call themselves “Palken Bulgarians”. Their denominational existence plays a major role in their preservation. They are Catholics. On this basis, they united with the Bulgarian Catholics from Northern and Southern Bulgaria and were called like them “Pavlikians”, today “Palkentsi”. Our study prove the hypothesis that in the concept sphere of the Banat Bulgarians, the denomination is a core that is realized in the semantic content of many basic concepts as good, evil, custom and language. The methodology we use is based on the free associative experiment.