Obrzeża subkultury czy ruch religijny? Satanizm młodzieżowy w Polsce w latach osiemdziesiątych XX wieku
Fringes of the Subculture or a Religious Movement? Youth Satanism in Poland in the 1980s

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the history of youth Satanism, which appeared in Poland in the early 1980s. It was brought up by the fashion for heavy metal music, and the formation of a youth subculture gathered around this music and its subgenres. First, the author outlines the cultural background of the emergence and development of contemporary Satanism in the USA and Western Europe. Next, he describes its reception in Poland of the eighties, which, on the one hand, took place in isolation from the American and Western European sources of this phenomenon, while, on the other, it was an attempt to copy it, under the conditions of a non-democratic and largely traditional society. He also presents the role of music and its performers, as well as that played by official media in propagating Satanism, together with social reactions to its appearance and activities aimed at combating it. Based on new, unused sources, the author verifies some claims formulated in the literature on the subject and poses further research questions.

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