Rola i rodzaje tekstów funkcjonujących w sektach
The role and types of texts and their function in sects

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the topic of the way texts function in the sects of the Catholic Church. An anthropological and linguistic analysis referring to the contemporary times has been presented. Sects produce and employ a quasi-religious language and also establish strong intragroup ties. Moreover, they are able to change their identity and have a strong background both in the tradition of the Church's history and new age cultural air. Depending on the functions they perform, I distinguish 1. authenticating and founding texts/statutes, 2. texts marking a stark and rigorous contrast: familiar: stranger 3. texts determining the intragroup role division. The analyses have been made on the basis of materials obtained from Dominikańskie Centrum Informacji o Nowych Ruchach Religijnych i Sektach [the Dominican Center of Information on New Religious Movements and Sects], as well as on numerous publications (including Internet sources), leaflets, brochures and interviews with informants who wanted to preserve their anonymity.

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