Editor's introduction to the special issue "Ukraine: Lived Experiences of Past and Present" https... more Editor's introduction to the special issue "Ukraine: Lived Experiences of Past and Present" https://journals.iaepan.pl/ep/issue/view/193
Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies, Johns Hopkins University Press Volume 4, Number 1 , 2021
Through extensive fieldwork in Eastern Poland (Subcarpathia) this study examines the relationship... more Through extensive fieldwork in Eastern Poland (Subcarpathia) this study examines the relationships between memories of the post-World War II resettlements, religious practices, and the feeling of belonging to places and shrines. Two Greek Catholic sites considered in this study are being revived both mentally and physically through the memories and restored religious practices around them. In the perspective of those Greek Catholic and Orthodox believers expelled from the region after World War II and for their descendants, those places remain holy, despite being ruined and desecrated. The article argues that pilgrimages serve as means to claim continuity with a particular place and with the group that shares a history of belonging to that place. Using an anthropological lens, this research shows the important role that pilgrimages play in linking people with their ancestry and specific sacred places—churches, pilgrimage sites, springs—in which family memories become part of religious experience, and religion is perceived as it is lived.
Catholic Religious Minorities in the Times of Transformation. Comparative Studies of Religious Culture in Poland and Ukraine. Ed. Magdalena Zowczak. Warsaw: Peter Lang, 2019, pp. 245-276, 2019
Every religious community tends to express its own distinction from the other groups. The boundar... more Every religious community tends to express its own distinction from the other groups. The boundaries that exist on "confessional borderland" even between neighbours and relatives are often caused by the existence of stereotypes. They influence greatly the everyday life of its bearers. The article refers to the existence of inter-confessional stereotypes in Ukrainian rural community, Orthodox in majority, in Western Polesie region. It examines one of the components of realizing the "us-versus-them" cultural opposition using as an example the perception of Protestant communities (mostly three of them: Jehovah's Witnesses, Baptists, Pentecostals) popular among the Ukrainians adhering to the Eastern Orthodox Church of both Moscow and Kyiv Patriarchies. Here we deal with construction of the image of an "alien" at "home". A member of any Protestant community is seemingly a representative of "our" environment, but at the same time, he is an "alien" by faith. The latter gives birth to various stereotypes and mythological beliefs about adherents of the "other / alien faith". Members of different protestant communities are called "wierujuszczi" or "sztundy" without distinguishing between religion and difference between the old communities (like Baptists) and the new charismatic movements. Using previous elaborations of Olga Belova and Anna Engelking, I came to the conclusion, that stereotypes in the culture of interfaith relations in Ukrainian rural community and related mythological beliefs about Protestants, as socially and religiously closed group, has now been replaced this sphere, which previously took stereotypes about Jews as "aliens". Various Protestant groups now occupy the place of the Jews in a number of stereotypes, gossip and mythological beliefs occurring in foklore. Protestants have become a situational substitute for the Jews, because in similar situations of the contacts with strangers Orthodox believers created similar perception of Protestants and treat them as adherents of “other / alien” faith.
Editor's introduction to the special issue "Ukraine: Lived Experiences of Past and Present" https... more Editor's introduction to the special issue "Ukraine: Lived Experiences of Past and Present" https://journals.iaepan.pl/ep/issue/view/193
Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies, Johns Hopkins University Press Volume 4, Number 1 , 2021
Through extensive fieldwork in Eastern Poland (Subcarpathia) this study examines the relationship... more Through extensive fieldwork in Eastern Poland (Subcarpathia) this study examines the relationships between memories of the post-World War II resettlements, religious practices, and the feeling of belonging to places and shrines. Two Greek Catholic sites considered in this study are being revived both mentally and physically through the memories and restored religious practices around them. In the perspective of those Greek Catholic and Orthodox believers expelled from the region after World War II and for their descendants, those places remain holy, despite being ruined and desecrated. The article argues that pilgrimages serve as means to claim continuity with a particular place and with the group that shares a history of belonging to that place. Using an anthropological lens, this research shows the important role that pilgrimages play in linking people with their ancestry and specific sacred places—churches, pilgrimage sites, springs—in which family memories become part of religious experience, and religion is perceived as it is lived.
Catholic Religious Minorities in the Times of Transformation. Comparative Studies of Religious Culture in Poland and Ukraine. Ed. Magdalena Zowczak. Warsaw: Peter Lang, 2019, pp. 245-276, 2019
Every religious community tends to express its own distinction from the other groups. The boundar... more Every religious community tends to express its own distinction from the other groups. The boundaries that exist on "confessional borderland" even between neighbours and relatives are often caused by the existence of stereotypes. They influence greatly the everyday life of its bearers. The article refers to the existence of inter-confessional stereotypes in Ukrainian rural community, Orthodox in majority, in Western Polesie region. It examines one of the components of realizing the "us-versus-them" cultural opposition using as an example the perception of Protestant communities (mostly three of them: Jehovah's Witnesses, Baptists, Pentecostals) popular among the Ukrainians adhering to the Eastern Orthodox Church of both Moscow and Kyiv Patriarchies. Here we deal with construction of the image of an "alien" at "home". A member of any Protestant community is seemingly a representative of "our" environment, but at the same time, he is an "alien" by faith. The latter gives birth to various stereotypes and mythological beliefs about adherents of the "other / alien faith". Members of different protestant communities are called "wierujuszczi" or "sztundy" without distinguishing between religion and difference between the old communities (like Baptists) and the new charismatic movements. Using previous elaborations of Olga Belova and Anna Engelking, I came to the conclusion, that stereotypes in the culture of interfaith relations in Ukrainian rural community and related mythological beliefs about Protestants, as socially and religiously closed group, has now been replaced this sphere, which previously took stereotypes about Jews as "aliens". Various Protestant groups now occupy the place of the Jews in a number of stereotypes, gossip and mythological beliefs occurring in foklore. Protestants have become a situational substitute for the Jews, because in similar situations of the contacts with strangers Orthodox believers created similar perception of Protestants and treat them as adherents of “other / alien” faith.
Program of the Workshop held on October 3 - 4, 2019 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
The Centre for Applied Anth... more Program of the Workshop held on October 3 - 4, 2019 in Kyiv, Ukraine. The Centre for Applied Anthropology.
Program of the Workshop held on June 1 - 3, 2017 in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Department of Culturology, Res... more Program of the Workshop held on June 1 - 3, 2017 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Department of Culturology, Research Institute of Ukrainian Studies.
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