Catholic Religious Minorities in the Times of Transformation : Comparative Studies of Religious Culture in Poland and Ukraine

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Book Series European Studies in Theology, Philosophy and History of Religions

ISBN-10 3631770405

ISBN-13 9783631770405

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Publisher Peter Lang AG

Imprint Peter Lang AG

Country of Manufacture DE

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 12th, 2019

Print length 428 Pages

Weight 616 grams

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The book presents ethnographic research on two Catholic communities’ religious life, interpreted in their history’s context. It shows identity changes shaped by religious authorities which includes ethnic identity construction, conscious transcending of religious differences, tradition’s transmission interruption and ethnic orientation change.

In the diasporic communities of Roman Catholics in Ukraine (Murafa) and Greek Catholics in Poland (Biały Bór) religion and the local clergy play a dominant role in the process of constructing new identities. Because of the memory of their ancestors’ deportation trauma the Greek Catholics define their Ukrainianness in opposition to their environment. In Roman Catholics’ case, the change of the liturgy’s language is followed by the Polish tradition’s rejection: they feel Ukrainian. The break of the tradition’s transmission path divides the community and directs them towards (pop)cultural homogenization with the Orthodox. The Greek Catholics are also divided because of their new church; universal in the Christian sense, it proves the overcoming of divisions, not accepted by everyone.

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