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Religion and Religiousness of Poles in Observations of French Travellers in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 17th Century

In the 17th century, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth became a country that French people liked to visit. Many of them left descriptions of the country which was different to their own in certain aspects. One of these…

The Metropolitan Andrei Šeptytsky's Role in Concluding Concordat Between the Apostolic See and Poland [1925]

This thesis is a study of the role of Andrei Šeptytsky, the Metropolitan of the Ukrainian GreekCatholic Church, in discussions on articles of the Concordat between the Apostolic See and Poland. The archival documents pr…

Relation of the Communist Regime Towards the Catholic Church in Croatia Between 1945 and 1952

Based on historical facts, published and unpublished archival materials, this work provides concise analysis of relations between the Church and the state in Croatia between 1945 and 1952, that is from the period when t…

Life of Queen Helen by Daniel II as a Model of Perfect Symphony of the State and the Church

The aim of this article is to describe and analyze relations between Serbian medieval queen - Helen of Anjou and the Serbian Orthodox Church presented in a literary vision of her life written by archbishop Daniel II. Th…

The Religious Aspects of the Cossacks' Uprisings in the First Half of 17th Century

This paper focuses mostly on the religious aspects of the Cossacks' uprisings in the first half of 17th century (mainly the 1625, 1630, 1637 and 1638 uprisings), and discusses their impact on the origins, the course and…

The Macedonian Dispute in the Activity of the Metropolitan of Thessalonica Anthimos

The article focuses on a context rarely exposed yet significant for the analysis how the Macedonian Dispute is perceived by the Greek public opinion. The aim of the text is to show the position of the representatives of…

Bulgarians in the Mont Athos Until the End of the 14th Century

n the present work, we review the question of the presence of Bulgarians in the Mont Athos region during the the middle ages. We then examine the topic of the first orthodox monastery there and the main steps in the est…

Mesco dux Polonie baptizatur - the Access of the Piast Power to the Respublica Christiana

The article refers to the religious and cultural turning point that took place in the Piast state due to the act of accepting Christianity by the prince Mieszko I (who died in 992) in 966. These issues are presented fro…

The Roman Church Against the State Power

This article emphasizes the important but rarely analyzed aesthetic-political dimension of the relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and the state. The author synthetically discusses the development of the inne…

(Genesis and Evolution of Relation State - Church in Byzantine Empire

Practicaly until today there haven't appeared objectiv scientific works concerning begining and evolution of the byzantine monarchy. Christian Church after 300 years of awful persecutions came out of the underground and…

Was Croatian Literary Modernism Anti-Catholic? One Conceptual Aspect of the Dispute Between "the Old" and "the Young" in Croatian Literature at the End of the 19th and the Beginning of the 20th Century

An interesting conceptual dispute, usually called a confrontation between "the old" and "the young", developed at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Although by its name defined as a "clash of ge…

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Churches in Poland Facing the German Occupation 1939-1945

Poland and Polish nationalism are widely identified with Catholicism. However, the population of the Polish state was not homogenous ethnically and religiously - in 1921 the number of ethnic/confessional minorities reac…

Protestants in the Tsarist Russia: Their Legal Status

The paper briefly presents the history of Protestantism in Russia (16th-19th century) and the legal status of Protestant communities. An emphasis is placed on participation of the state and the individual tsars in incre…

Dedicatory Epistles to the King in Matters of Faith in the Polish Protestant Bibles in the 16th and 17th Century

The article examines religious topics in dedicatory letters for the Polish Protestant Bibles of the 16th and 17th century. The New Testament published by Jan Seklucjan (1551-1553), the Brest Bible (1563) and the Gdansk…

Prayers for Ukraine and Peace in the "Times of Tribulation and Division"

Based upon web-published materials, the article analyzes the eulogies composed in the Church Slavonic and Ukrainian languages, which have arisen following Kiev's Maidan and its subsequent developments in the period Dece…

The Political Argumentation in Hipacy Pociej's Antirrēsis

The article investigates the interconfessional polemical literature as a valuable source offering an insight into the major values of the society of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th-17th centuries. These t…

Political Aspects of the Dispute over the Macedonian Orthodox Church [MOC] [1991-2014]

The dispute about the autocephaly of the Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOC), one of the questions within the discourse on the Macedonian national identity since 1967, gained new significance after 1991, as a consequence o…

Religious Traditions of the Czech Identity Discourse from the Interwar Period

The main purpose of the article is to find the answer, how two different religious traditions (reformative and catholic) influenced the process of building of historical consciousness of secular Czech society in the int…

The Serbian Orthodox Church in the 90s

This paper is based on the earlier works of the author (incurred mainly on the analysis of the press of state and Church provenance), surveys of sociologists of religion, and findings of other researchers dealing with t…

Serbian Orthodox Church, Desecularization and Democracy

In Serbia, in the aftermath of 5 October 2000, the process of desecularization, including the revitalization of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC), overlapped with the democratization of its political institutions, as we…

Slovenian Catholic Church During the Second World War and the Govern of Marshal Tito [1941-1980]

The history of Slovenian Catholic Church is a field, which is not well known in Poland. That is why this article aims to present one of the peculiar episode from the past of Slovenian Catholicism. The article covers the…

Provincializing Feminism in Polish Literary Studies

The author of the text analyzes the strategies of provincializing the Polish feminism and gender studies. Starting points for interpretations in the article are Dipesh Chakrabarty's book - Provincializing Europe. Postco…

Who is Afraid of Islamic Femism - (Post)jugoslavian Discourse

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There is Accounting for Taste

O nich tutaj (książka o języku i przekładzie), wyb. i oprac. P. Sommer, Instytut Książki - Literatura na Świecie, Kraków-Warszawa 2016, 608 s.