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ORDO TEMPORIS „SECULARIZATION” AS A HISTORIOGRAPHIC CATEGORYThe issue of secularization became a „Bermuda triangle” of debates concerning the origin and development of modernity. In some theories, the concept which originated within the sphere of canon law, has grown to the rank of the main historiosophic category which establishes the order of the times. In its semantic, though not phonic translatio,...
GOLEM. AN ANALYSIS OF THE ROOTS OF THE MODERN JEWISH LEGENDThe aim of the article is to present the semantic wealth concealed in the Jewish legend about “golem”, which became popularized in the 19th and 20th centuries. The author presents a semantic analysis of the Hebrew stem g-l-m as well as of its derivatives. He discusses the most important sources which treat about golem – beginning with the...
THE CITIZENS OF THE POLISH COMMONWEALTH IN THE PANTHEON OF SAINTS OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCHIn the article, the author presents the cults of nine saints, citizens of the Polish-Lithuanian state, who were canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church: Dimitri of Rostov (Tuptalo), Innokentiy of Irkutsk (Kulchitsky), Job of Pochayiv, Theodosius of Chernigov (Polonitsky-Uglitsky), Philophey of Tobolsk...
FUNDAMENTALISMS AND EUROINTEGRATION: THE CASE OF BULGARIAObject of the study are contemporary manifestations of religious fundamentalism at the Balkans under conditions of concurrent eurointegration (the case of Bulgaria is considered in particular). Followed are the major synchronous and diachronous factors determining the specificity of fundamentalist phenomena in the context of the Balkans, Orthodoxy,...
JACKOB BURCKHARDT AND THE RELIGION OF ARTMore or less since the middle of the 18th century, there appeared a conviction that the experience of a work of art, if suitably prepared and separated off from other types of experience, may, thanks to its intensity and exclusivity as well as its totality, match or even supplant a religious experience. This process of sky-high adoration of art and the apotheosis...
THE COMMUNAL DIMENSION OF THE SPIRITUALITY OF THE CONTEMPORARY PROTESTANTISM IN GERMANY ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE GERMAN EVANGELICAL CHURCH DA (GECD) – WESTERN POMERANIA SOURCES AND CONTEXTS It would be difficult to imagine contemporary German-language Protestantism without cyclical meetings organized bi-annually within the so called German Evangelical Church Day (Evangelischer Kirchentag). Sometimes...
WHAT DOES A MUSLIM HEADSCARF CONCEAL? BETWEEN RELIGION, GENDER AND CULTURE: THE FRENCH CASEThe purpose of the article is to interpret the meaning of the Muslim headscarf from the perspective of the constructivist theory of James Beckford, whose methodological assumptions were presented by the author at the beginning. The author starts with a presentation of the reasons why at the institutional level...
SHATTERED POTS FOLLOWING DECONSTRUCTION: CONTEMPORARY ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORIES OF RELIGIONThe aim of the article is an attempt to answer the question whether under the influence of changes in the very subject-matter of anthropological research (a shift from traditional religions to great traditions perceived in different scales), there occurred any changes in the approach to religion and what consequences...
FOLK DEACONATE. REFLECTION ON THE LITURGICAL EMANCIPATION OF WOMEN IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCHThe article constitutes a reflection on the issue of the ordination of women, in the context of a different interpretation of the role of a priest in the liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church, with a simultaneous reference of this issue to the practice of the Old Catholic Churches. A gradual widening of the scope...
RELIGION ONLINE COMMENTS ON THE PROCESS OF VIRTUALIZATION OF RELIGIONThe article constitutes an attempt to describe the functioning of religion in the Internet, and particularly of the religious practices which are conducted online. The authoresses of the article trace the transformations which have taken place in the use of the Internet as an instrument employed to conduct types of practices, beginning...
Recenzja:J.L. FRANCZYK, BRAMA ŚMIERCI. PYTANIA O SPRAWY OSTATECZNE, KRAKÓW 2007, WAM, SS. 104 I K.P. KRAMER, ŚMIERĆ W RÓŻNYCH RELIGIACH ŚWIATA, TŁUM. MAREK CHOJNACKI, KRAKÓW 2007, WAM, SS. 332
ICONS IN RUSSIAN POLITICS – OLD AND NEWThe author of the article discusses the political aspect of the cult of the most worshipped images of Our Lady in the Russian Orthodox Church, namely: Our Lady of Vladimir, Our Lady of Tichvin and her replica Our Lady of Narva, Our Lady of Kazan, Our Lady of the Don River, Our Lady of Pskov, Our Lady of Smolensk and others. He raises the issue of taking advantage...
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