(in Polish) Kultura religijna w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej 430-KS2-1KON29
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Religious culture in Central and Eastern Europe is little known in Polish scientific literature. The aim of the course is to show its diversity, to present its originality of forms, to present, to analyze the influence of cult centers on the faithful, to discuss pastoral, educational and charitable activities, to describe everyday religious culture. An important problem to be solved is describing the specificity of religious life in the in Central and Eastern Europe. The description will include the pastoral activity of the clergy, forms and practices of religious life in the public and private dimension.The key question to learn and analyze is to what extent the religiosity of the inhabitants of the Polish-Belarusian-Ukrainian border differed in form and content from other regions of Central and Eastern Europe. During the course, an attempt will be made to assess the influence of the Byzantine and Latin traditions on religious life and practices in Central and Eastern Europe. Byzantine culture, especially its religious dimension, had a strong influence after the fall of Constantinople (1453), when many clergy and lay people came to the borders of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The territories of Central and Eastern Europe received a significant number of refugees from the former lands of the Byzantine Empire and the Balkans. At the same time, the lands of this diocese were strongly influenced by Western Christianity (the Roman Catholic Church and Reformed denominations). As a result, a specific form of religious life was shaped on the religious and cultural borderland. Two great Christian traditions met in Central and Eastern Europe. The meeting of two civilization trends, Byzantine-Slavic and Latin, led to the creation of specific cultural norms and forms of social and religious coexistence over the centuries. The basic component of these standards was and still is the denomination. As a result, the cultural and religious image of this part of Europe has become even more colorful. The sixteenth century enriched this denominational mosaic with new religious groups formed under the influence of the Reformation. In addition to the main reformation currents: Lutheranism and Calvinism, the lands of Central and Eastern Europe became a place of asylum for German Anabaptists, Italian anti-trinitarians, English Quakers and Dutch Mennonites. And yet we cannot forget about the influence of the Jewish population on the economic and cultural situation of the border towns that existed since the Middle Ages. |
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Term 2022:
Augustyniak U., Wielokulturowość Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego i idea tolerancji, [w:] Lietuvos Didźiosios Kunigaikśtijos tradicija ir tatutiniai naratyvai, red. A. Bumblauskas, G. Potaśenko, Vilnius 2009, s. 87-104. |
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Term 2022:
The main element of the substantive analysis of the subject will be the religious culture of the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Europe, the daily religious practices of the faithful and the place of religion in shaping their cultural and ethnic identity. |
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