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ON FOLK THEODICY (O teodycei ludowej)

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Jankowski J.
Etnografia Polska
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2009
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vol. 53
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issue 1-2
175-186
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The article focuses on the issue of explanations of everyday misfortunes by members of a local community. Its goal is to show that a final result of such explanations is creation of complex philosophical system strongly dependent on the idea of God. The author describes process, in which his interlocutors 'justify' their misfortunes and sufferings. In that way they construct a local theodicy - a wide system of meanings and explanations that makes all unexpected situations valid in a broader religious context. Results of author's research show that, above all, using paradigm of local theodicy helps his interlocutors defend God from accusations of being unjust. Such attitude serves them to build a kind of epistemological structure in which great and good God can exist simultaneously with violence, suffering and pain which are, in consequence, seen as a part of different order. What is wrong and bad thus, must have some kind of sense even if one cannot understand it himself. Without constructing this local form of theodicy, the interlocutors could not share Christian values and be a part of a community based on these values. Conducted research has shown that some aspects of author's interlocutors' lives, would be very difficult to explain without a concept of local theodicy and if this idea did not exist, their faith would be seriously challenged.
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CONTEMPORARY RELIGIOSITY IN KURPIE REGION (Wspólczesna religijnosc na Kurpiach)

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Baraniecka-Olszewska K.
Etnografia Polska
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2009
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vol. 53
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issue 1-2
147-156
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The authoress describes some difficulties concerning doing research on contemporary Polish religiosity. Since there are many phenomena occurring throughout the country (e. g. the cult of Our Lady of Czestochowa, popularity of 'Radio Maryja' or pilgrimages to the most famous sanctuaries) it is a kind of a challenge to find a fresh field for research. Happily, Polish anthropologists beloved some regions of Poland that they used to describe widely and frequently because of their richness of data what allows to conduct a fruitful study. One of such regions is Kurpie (central Poland) chosen also by the authoress of the article as a research field for a group of students of the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the Warsaw University. The text is simultaneously a preface for a set of articles being a summary of a two-year research on Polish religiosity in Kurpie. It introduces subjects of following articles showing how nationwide phenomena are interpreted in the local context and how some local issues constitute an alternative for the 'global' ones or how they absorb the 'global' giving it a local shade.
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THE SPIRIT OF TIME. CONTEMPORARY RELIGIOSITY AS SEEN BY DIFFERENT GENERATIONS (Duch czasu. Wspólczesna religijnosc postrzegana przez pryzmat pokolen)

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Olechowska I.
Etnografia Polska
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2009
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vol. 53
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issue 1-2
213-231
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This article is a monograph of the contemporary religiosity perceived through the prism of religious practices of various generations of the rural population in Cierpieta in the Kurpie region. The text is written on the basis of material collected by the authoress during the ethnographic fieldwork conducted in this village. The article describes a change of a religious traditions and practices. The authoress discusses the increasing role of priests and Church in the means of adopting new practices and making them popular among parishioners. The influence of globalization on perceiving religiosity and the spread of the phenomenon of so-called popular religiosity is being widely discussed as well.
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