Research on Folk Religiosity at KUL’s Department of Religiology and Missiology
Research on Folk Religiosity at KUL’s Department of Religiology and Missiology

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the historical activity, specificity and thematic scope of research conducted by faculty members and students, with a particular focus on postdoctoral (habilitation), doctoral and master’s theses that were written on the subject of folk religiosity at the Department of Religiology and Missiology at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. In order to explain our research methodology and the method of analyzing the collected source material obtained from ethnographic field studies on social and spiritual folk culture, the article presents the main themes of the examined annual rituals (Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter) and the rites of passage (weddings, funerals). Many of our articles on folk rituals and religiosity have been published in journals and research monographs.

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