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Folk Religion: Today and Yesterday
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Folk Religion: Today and Yesterday

A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444). This special issue belongs to the section "Religions and Humanities/Philosophies".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 September 2022) | Viewed by 3516

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Monika Mazurek

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University of Gdansk Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Sociology, 80-309 Gdańsk, Jana Bażyńskiego 4, Poland
Interests: sociology of religion; ethnicity; ethnic/national minorities; borders studies

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Religion understood as a system of meanings, as a cultural system, plays an important role in the formation of ethnic/national minorities/majorities also in the modern world. Folk religions are still important in this respect.

The main purpose of this issue is to show how ethnic/cultural practices go beyond the doctrine of organized religion, or how faith is interpreted and understood regionally compared to the religion of theological orientation.

From this perspective, both folk religion among the Sami or Seto are interesting, as well as the process of adaptation of native believes and practices to the American context by Afro-Americans in America.

It is also of interest how the mainstream religion(s) are practiced by individual nations, as exemplified by Catholicism in Ireland, Poland or Latin America.

The aim of this Special Issue is to investigate the subject of folk religion, its various meanings and definitions.

I would like to invite papers by authors wishing to provoke reflections on the role played by historical, sociological and anthropological research on folk religion.

Topics might include but are not limited to:

  • examples of folk religion, contemporary and historical
  • local/regional adaptations of the main religions
  • local/regional sacred places or saints

Prof. Dr. Monika Mazurek
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Folk Religions
  • Sociology of Religion
  • Anthropology of Religion

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Folk Religion in Transformation: A Religious Studies Perspective Based on Examples from Romania
by Alina Patru
Religions 2022, 13(10), 991; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13100991 - 20 Oct 2022
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The present study deals with some changes identifiable on the level of folk religion, i.e., of the religious expression of ordinary people. Its premises are that folk religion is a subsegment of religion, fulfilling specific functions which official or elite religion fail to [...] Read more.
The present study deals with some changes identifiable on the level of folk religion, i.e., of the religious expression of ordinary people. Its premises are that folk religion is a subsegment of religion, fulfilling specific functions which official or elite religion fail to satisfy. The paper lies on a theoretical grounding stemming mainly from the Scandinavian school of comparative religion and folkloristics and applies these theories to examples from Romania. In this way, the specific functions of folk religion are analyzed, and the question is asked how these needs come to be met once people detach from the rural values. It is found that individuals which have lost their connection to traditions also head with their needs to cognitively lees costly religious forms, this time to global forms, which had become contents of the now enlarged pool of tradition. These contents are actualized in accordance with the concrete personal needs. In different forms of new spiritualities many characteristics of folk religion can be identified, moreover, they take similar roles. This demonstrates that folk religion has its own dynamism, transforming to reflect social and cultural change. Full article
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Folk Religion and the Idea of the Catholic Nation in Poland as an Intellectual and Pastoral Heritage of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński
by Arkadiusz Modrzejewski and Jakub Potulski
Religions 2022, 13(10), 946; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13100946 - 10 Oct 2022
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In the article, we present Polish Catholicism as an example of folk religion. As a result of a complicated political history, the Catholic Church became not only the depositary of Christian faith and morality, but also the mainstay of Polish national identity, shaped [...] Read more.
In the article, we present Polish Catholicism as an example of folk religion. As a result of a complicated political history, the Catholic Church became not only the depositary of Christian faith and morality, but also the mainstay of Polish national identity, shaped during the partitions in opposition to Russian Orthodoxy and Prussian Protestantism. It was then that Polishness became a stereotypical synonym of Catholicism. The stereotype of a Pole—a Catholic was consolidated. In Poland, as a predominantly agricultural country, folk religiosity was shaped, appealing to the sphere of ideas and emotions of the rural population or of those of rural origin settled in urban centres. This form of piety was reinforced by Polish Romanticism with its folk preferences. Romanticism, although often inconsistent with Catholic dogmatics, took root in Catholic circles. Its legacy is the messianism present in the Polish collective consciousness, which is also dear to many Catholic thinkers and clergymen. Poland, tormented under partitions, plagued by numerous wars, national disasters, betrayals, and harm caused by neighbouring nations, became an allegory of Christ suffering on the cross. This suggestive image appealed to the mass imagination of Poles, and the Catholic Church became its transmitter. The contemporary face of the Catholic Church in Poland was formed in the times of so-called real socialism, when the Church and its hierarchy once again became defenders of traditional Polishness and Polish national identity, opposing atheisation and the construction of a new identity based on Soviet models. For over three decades, the leader of Polish Catholicism was Stefan Wyszyński, the Primate of Poland, who became a promoter of folk piety, including, in particular, the Marian cult. Through the massive mobilisation of Polish Catholics united by common religious practices, he successfully prevented the secularisation of Polish society that affected other communist states. That is why, forty years after his death, Wyszyński can be considered the architect of contemporary Polish Catholicism with its dominant ritual form of piety and a nationalist trait. Full article
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