FIGURE OF OUR LADY AS A SYMBOL OF RESISTANCE IN POLISH NATIONAL MYTHOLOGY (Obraz Panny Marie ako symbol odporu v polskej narodnej mytologii)

• Authors: Niedzwiedz Anna
• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

It is very interesting to observe that the popular vision of a nation and its past has a very strong religious dimension in the Polish case. Sacred and profane visions of time, cyclical and linear, mythical and real are mixed together. Religious symbols are often tied strictly with the national discourse, so it is difficult to distinguish which symbols are more religious, and which are more national. A good example can be the image of Our Lady of Czestochowa which is often described and treated as a national emblem.The symbol of Our Lady of Czestochowa was adopted by Solidarity and also by the resistance movement of the 1980s in Poland.

Keywords

EN

MYTHOLOGY; SYMBOL OF RESISTANCE (POLAND); VIRGIN MARY

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovenský národopis (Slovak Ethnology)
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 56
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 373-387
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Niedzwiedz Anna

• Anna Niedzwiedz, Jagiellonian University, ul. Golebia 14, 31-007 Kraków, Poland; www.uet.sav.sk/slovenskynarodopis.htm

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09SKAAAA06597