Object structure
Title:

Transformations in the parish of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Otwock-Śródborów

Subtitle:

Ethnologia Polona 28 (2007)

Creator:

Kulik, Katarzyna

Publisher:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Date issued/created:

2007

Description:

24 cm

Type of object:

Journal/Article

Subject and Keywords:

local parish ; transformation ; religious community ; models of religiosity

Abstract:

The article discusses the transformations which took place over two years (2006 through 2008) in the parish of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Otwock-Śródborów — the parish in which the author lives and to which she belongs. As an inhabitant of the parish and a participant in the life of its religious community, she was in position to closely and regularly observe the process, and at the same time had access to information which may have been concealed from an outsider. In the mid-2006 the hitherto rector had been recalled and thus, initially at least, the transformations concerned only the organisation of parish life. However, as the creator and spiritual leader of the community, and as the builder of the parish church, the rector had enjoyed particular respect and was a great authority to his parishioners; no wonder, therefore, that his leaving triggered changes which were felt keenly throughout the community. From a traditional, well-integrated local community fulfilling several functions of not only religious nature, it became a community of a strictly religious character, the members of which, having completed shared religious practice, return to their individual concerns. Today, the parish in question is still in the process of changing. At present, it is difficult to state with any certainty in what direction the transformations are heading, which makes the parish all the more interesting object of observation and further research

References:

Ajdacki P., Kałuszko J. 2006, Otwock i okolice, Pruszków
Czarnowski S. 1956, Kultura religijna wiejskiego ludu polskiego, [in:] Dzieła, PWN, Warszawa, pp. 88-107
Kalinowski M. 2000, Kościoły otwockie na tle historii architektury sakralnej, Rocznik Otwocki, Vol. 5, pp. 199-206
Piwowarski W. 1996, Socjologia religii, Lublin
Tomicki R. 1981, Religijność ludowa, [in:] Etnografia Polski. Przemiany kultury ludowej, ed. M. Biernacka, M. Frankowska, W. Paprocka, Vol. 2, Wrocław, pp. 29.70
Wąsala P. 1999, Funkcje lidera w społeczności lokalnej regionu środkowo-wschodniego, [in:] Studia etnologiczne i antropologiczne. Kultury regionalne i pogranicza kulturowe a świadomość etniczna, ed. I. Bukowska-Floreńska, Katowice, pp. 225-243

Relation:

Ethnologia Polona

Volume:

28

Start page:

141

End page:

152

Resource type:

Text

Detailed Resource Type:

Article

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

0137-4079

Source:

IAiE PAN, call no. P 366 ; IAiE PAN, call no. P 367 ; IAiE PAN, call no. P 368 ; click here to follow the link

Language:

eng

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Restricted Access

Terms of use:

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Digitizing institution:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

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