Historia kierunku studiów nauki o rodzinie na Wydziale Teologicznym Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w Katowicach

Author(s): Marek Wójtowicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2016

Only in 2011 were family studies acknowledged as a scientific discipline. However, as a field of study it has had a longer history. Studying this discipline at the Faculty of Theology of the University of Silesia in Katowice is quite popular. The didactic proposal includes undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate studies. The process of teaching is connected with an intensive scientific research. The article shows both the history of family studies in Katowice since 2009 and scientific activity of the Department of Family Studies. The forthcoming development perspectives of research and didactic offer are presented as well.

Vilniaus vyskupo konstantino Kazimiero Bžostovskio poveikis Kauno benediktinių veiklai

Author(s): Vaida Kamuntavičienė / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 60/2016

The article discusses relations between the nuns of Kaunas Benedictine convent and the bishop of Vilnius diocese Kontantinas Kazimieras Bžostovskis (Konstantyn Kazimierz Brzostowski), a controversially treated personality in historiography due to his political activities. The research is based on handwritten sources and covers the period from 1687 to 1722. The article reveals the way the bishop of Vilnius diocese took care of spiritual and material issues of Benedictine nuns, discusses reforms that took place in the convent and, lastly, shows how all of that affected the life of the nuns.

ПОСТСЕКУЛЯРНЫЕ ТЕНДЕНЦИИ У ТАТАР В НАЧАЛЕ XXI ВЕКА

Author(s): Guzel Yahievna Guzelbaeva / Language(s): Russian Issue: 6/2014

The paper focuses on the changing role of Islam in Tatarstan in the post-secular period. It is primarily expressed in the increase of its value in the public space and the growth of religiosity at the individual level compared to the early 1990s. A number of post-secular features have been identified: active Islamization of young people; transfer of religious socialization from an early age to adolescence; importance of not only external reference groups, individuals and institutions, but also individual spiritual search and reflection on the creed. The paper is based on the data from the sociological research (survey and in-depth interviews) carried out by the author in 2008–2014 in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia.

Problemy systematyzacyjne związane ze zróżnicowaniem zachodzącym pomiędzy dekretem poszczególnym a reskryptem w Kodeksie Prawa Kanonicznego z 1983 r.

Author(s): Ginter Dzierżon / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2015

In the presented study, the author by analysing the content of the definition of legal decrees and rescripts codified in can. 48 and 59 §1 of the CIC, pointed out that these regulations do not contain any explicit components differentiating these categories of acts. In his opinion, the assumptions contained in the definitions do not fully fit many system solutions formulated in other code regulations.The author of the article proved that the difference between the two categories of acts mentioned in the title becomes clear in their formal aspect because a decree in order to be valid should be issued in a written form. In the case of rescripts, however, the legislator departs from this requirement allowing oral legal effectiveness of this type of legislation. Nonetheless, according to the author, the difference between these two categories of acts is not substantial since, in this case, it only concerns the formal aspect of an act.

Posługa duszpasterska salezjanów w parafii pod wezwaniem Świętej Trójcy w Czaplinku w latach 1945-2013

Author(s): Eugeniusz Wiązowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2015

The first Salesian who on 12th August, 1945 started a pastoral service in the Parish of the Holy Trinity in Czaplinek was Rev. Bernard Zawada. During the period of 68 years, there were 12 parish priests belonging to the Salesian Congregation. Since 1947 there have been 70 priests among the support personnel, 26 of whom have already passed away. There were also 25 assistant seminarians who helped the priests in their pastoral care. There were also two coadjutors in the parish. Apart from the parish church the priests also served in 9 nearby churches. Two of them were built by the Salesians on the ruins of old churches. After the separation from the parent parish and the constitution of three new parishes, there remain now two churches to serve which are located within the town: the parish church of the Holy Trinity and an auxiliary church of the Exaltation of the Cross. There is also an active oratory and 10 different parish communities.

КОЛЛЕКТИВНАЯ ПАМЯТЬ РЕЛИГИОЗНЫХ СООБЩЕСТВ В ЭПОХУ ГЛОБАЛИЗАЦИИ

Author(s): Daniil Aleksandrovich Anikin / Language(s): Russian Issue: 1/2015

The specificity of collective memory in religious communities is considered. Transformations of ways used to appeal to the past as a result of globalization are discussed. The research is based on the works promoting structural-functional and cultural semiotic approaches, uncovering the role of the religious field in social space structure and the dynamics with which images of the past transfer from the daily practices to the sphere of normalization. It is concluded that globalization develops a feedback between communicative and cultural memories, resulting in fragmentation of the existing religious traditions, as well as increase in the diversity of religious practices within the social, economic, and political context.

Inspirations Of Pope Francis’ Concept Of Integral Ecology

Author(s): Ryszard F. Sadowski / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2016

This article presents the cultural ideas as well as philosophical, social and scientific theories that shaped the concept of integral ecology presented by Pope Francis in his encyclical Laudato Si’. There are many indications that the direct impact on the thought of the Pope was St. Francis’ of Assisi vision of the world and the social teaching of the Church, especially the teachings of John Paul II and Benedict XVI. It also seems that at least an indirect impact on the ecology of the Pope’s vision expressed in the ecological encyclical was exerted by Jacques Maritain’s integral humanism. Because of the similarity of ideas, we can also assume that the earlier versions of integral ecology proposed by Ken Wilber, Leonardo Boff and Thomas Berry also to some extent might have provided inspiration for Pope Francis.

Ecological Education In Laudato Si’

Author(s): Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2016

Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’ recent encyclical on care for our common home, reminds us that ecological education is vital to becoming more responsible stewards of our home planet. In the face of the contemporary ecological crisis, we stand in need of a deep personal transformation and a radical renewal of our life-styles. Here the role of education is paramount. Pope Francis calls for an ecological education capable of establishing a new covenant between humanity and the natural world. According to the Pope, we need a holistic education that can re-establish harmony with nature, our fellow human beings and the Transcendent. The Pope also speaks of the variety of settings for education to ecological citizenship: schools, families, media, catechesis, houses of religious formation, etc. Education towards ecological citizenship is the need of the hour in this crucial moment of planetary emergency.

XXVII Międzynarodowy Festiwal Muzyki Religijnej im. ks. Stanisława Ormińskiego w Rumi (22-24 października 2015)

Author(s): Krzysztof Niegowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2016

Утраченное соседство: образ еврейского местечка в воспоминаниях не евреев

Author(s): Olga Belova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 4/2015

The paper presents some results of the study of the image of the Jewish town (shtetl), as it appears in the oral tales of the non-Jewish locals. The presentation is based on the folklore and ethnographic data collected in 2012 during the field research in Western Belarus and in Bessarabia. The oral stories of local old residents from the settlement Zheludok (Grodno region, Belarus) and the village Vertiujeni (Floreshti district, Republic of Moldova) will be analyzed to show the mechanism of “Jewish history” reconstruction of former Jewish settlements where the Jewish population is now missing. The only evidence of Jewish heritage are the monuments of material culture (houses, synagogue, Jewish cemetery), and the only source of information – the memories of local residents about their neighbors – the Jews. As the collected material shows, the text about the “Jewish past” broadcasting by and among the non-Jews, combines ethnographic details and myth-making, and largely reflects the ethno-cultural stereotype of the Jew, characteristic to the folk tradition.

Die malerische Darstellung der Neumärtyrer der griechisch-orthodoxen Kirche, Kosmas von Ätolien und Georg von Ioannina, von den Malern von Samarina

Author(s): Nikos Papageorgiou / Language(s): Bulgarian,German Issue: 1/2015

The Cult of Saints Dadas, Gobdelas, and Casdoa in the Greek Provinces and Wallachia (16th – 18th Centuries)

Author(s): Konstantinos Giakoumis / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2015

Непозната житийна икона на св. Пантелеймон от църквата „Св. Николай“ във Видин

Author(s): Maya Zaharieva / Language(s): English,Bulgarian Issue: 1/2015

The paper deals with an unpublished for the time being hagiographical icon of St Panteleimon from the Metropolitan Church of St Nicholas in Vidin. Such hagiographical icons are a rarity in Bulgarian art, which begs a number of questions. The paper identifies the separate compositions, using for a comparative analysis the just a few extant hagiographical cycles and texts dedicated to the saint healer. The examples refer to a broad historical context, not pretending to be comprehensive, but allowing for tracing the development of certain subjects and the interpretations of the latter by the icon-painters. The icon-painter of the Vidin icon was familiar with the hagiographical text he followed and had interpreted it skilfully. The icon contains both a number of archaising elements, which occur very rarely in the extant hagiographical cycles and new compositions, representing interesting details. The iconographic and stylistic specifics of the partially preserved painting set a staring point for dating it chronologically: probably to the first half of the 18th century.

Editorial

Author(s): Martin van Bruinessen / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

The travellers, diplomats, missionaries and academics who have written on the Kurds have always shown a remarkable fascination with the Yezidis. The great Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi, who in the mid-seventeenth century wrote so extensively on diverse aspects of Kurdish culture, social life and political organisation that he may well be called the first Kurdologist, was also one of the first to write some tantalising observations on customs and practices of the Yezidis he encountered. He also reports in some detail on two punitive campaigns mounted by Ottoman governors against the Yezidis of Sinjar, in one of which he played a minor role himself. Christian missionaries based in Kurdistan were drawn to the Yezidis as the major non-Muslim and non-Christian community and fascinated by what they understood of its elusive theology. Two of the founders of West European academic Kurdology, C. J. Edmonds and Roger Lescot, devoted some of their major work to the Yezidis, and most Kurdish experts have felt the need to pay due attention to the Yezidi religion. Several of the ideologists of Kurdish nationalism, finally, have elevated the Yezidis to the status of most authentic Kurds. For more has been written about the Yezidis and their religion than about the religious practices and institutions of the Muslim Kurds, reflecting a bias among both foreign academics and secular Kurdish nationalists.

Biskup jako pasterz w tekstach liturgii słowa w obrzędach święceń biskupich

Author(s): Marcin Papuziński / Language(s): Polish Issue: 47/2016

The Bible has a fundamental place in the theological reflection on the bishop’s role in the Church. Selected biblical readings read during liturgy, are not only the word of God, but also clarify meaning of the celebration and of the reality manifested during different liturgical actions of the Church. For this reason, while reflecting on the pastoral mission of the bishop, it is worthwhile to analyze the readings of the liturgy of the word selected for the rite of ordination of bishops. In this study, due to the large number of proposed readings, only some examples have been analyzed (two taken from the OT, and eight from the NT). The analysis, in the light of word of God, shows both the bishop’s role as pastor and the meaning of his ministry. As pastor the bishop is primarily a proclaimer of the Good News and protector of the faithful entrusted to him. His entire pastoral service must follow the example of the true Good Shepherd — Jesus Christ (cf. J 10,11).

Druga edycja Lekcjonarza Mszalnego

Author(s): Anna Pleskaczewska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 47/2016

Since the proclamation of the word of God is an important element of the liturgical celebration, the Mass Lectionary is considered one of the chief liturgical books. The paper consists of three parts in which it attempts to show the genesis of lectionaries. The first part shows the history of the development of lectionaries. At first, the word of God celebrated during the liturgy was read from the Bible. With time, sets of Gospel periscopes, and later lectionaries, were created. Euchological readings and texts were also combined in one book. The second part of the paper describes the work of the Committee for the Implementation of the Second Vatican Council’s Reform. The Committee’s task was to divide a Missal into two books, namely a sacramentary and a lectionary. The article also presents the Committee’s work on the choice of pericopes which were to be included in the Roman version of the Mass Lectionary, as well as efforts to create the first Polish edition of the Mass Lectionary, the task commissioned by Primate Wyszyński. The final part of the paper shows the works on the second edition of the Mass Lectionary. In addition to a new, extended introduction, a series of alterations have been made in the lectionary. The passages in the Mass Lectionary come from Biblia Tysiąclecia (5th edition). The language of the readings has been revised and updated, and a new spelling of religious vocabulary words has been included. Some acclamations and responsorial psalms have also been changed. The second edition of the Mass Lectionary has been adopted to the Ordo Lectionum Missae guidelines of 1981.

Processionale z klasztoru OO. Karmelitów w Oborach

Author(s): Piotr Wiśniewski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 47/2016

Liturgical – musical books containing Gregorian chant are extremely valuable sources of information for different kinds of research: historical, liturgical, musicological studies and others. The issue being concerned refers to the printed ordinal Processionale… reductum from year 1759, from the library of the Carmelite monastery in Obory. The aim of this study is, first, to present the most characteristic features of the Carmelite book and then, to compare it to Processionale by Andrzej Piotrkowczyk from 1621. Having analysed the repertoire, it can be stated that Processionale from Obory was a liturgical book used in the local monastery. It depicts a living tradition of organizing processions during certain festivities of the liturgical year. The fact that such a book was issued proves the monks’ need for this form of religiousness. Comparing it to the edition by A. Piotrkowczyk (Proprium de Sanctis), the content of the Obory book is quite modest. The main reason for this could be the fact that Piotrkowczyk edition was to serve the whole province, while the Carmelite book was only for a particular monastery. The following study is meant as a starting point for further complete research of Carmelite books.

Ks. Prof. Petrus Yousif (1936-2015) - pro memoria

Author(s): Mateusz Rafał Potoczny / Language(s): Polish Issue: 47/2016

In memoriam: KS. PROF. PETRUS YOUSIF (1936–2015) W przestrzeni każdej dziedziny nauki znajdują się wielcy ludzie, których nazwiska kojarzone są nie tylko w środowisku lokalnym, ale również daleko poza nim. Obok nich są też tzw. „cisi badacze”, którzy — choć wykonują niezwykle istotną pracę i przyczyniają się do rozwoju nauki — całe życie pozostają w cieniu, ciesząc się drobnymi i zwyczajnymi okolicznościami codzienności. Do grupy takich właśnie cichych i jednocześnie wielkich ludzi liturgii z całą pewnością należał zmarły 17 grudnia 2015 r. w Paryżu w wieku 79 lat iracki duchowny, korepiskop Petrus Yousif.

Orthodox Church in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th–18th Century

Author(s): Antoni Mironowicz / Language(s): English Issue: 14/2016

The society of the Commonwealth was always characterized – to a greater or lesser degree – by a diversified religious and national structure. The problem with a society with different religious characteristics had appeared on a large scale already in the 14th century, when ethnically non-Polish people could be found within the borders of the Commonwealth. In the 14th century the Kingdom of Poland lost extensive ethnically Polish areas in the West. The religious and ethnic structure of the state changed due to the incorporation of Red Ruthenia by Casimir III the Great (Kazimierz Wielki). Casimir III the Great – the last representative of the Piast dynasty – understood the importance of the problem connected with the presence of Orthodox Church members within state borders. The king preserved the rights and rites of the Orthodox Church. Political relations between the grand Duchy of Lithuania and Catholic Poland had religious repercussions. It curbed the development of the Orthodox religion and paved the way for the Latin Church – with all the political and cultural consequences. The Orthodox religion changed from the dominating position to a tolerated one. Yet the Jagiellonians understood that Orthodox people inhabited their own – in an ethnic sense – territories. The Jagiellonians, as opposed to the Angevin (Andegawenowie) or the House of Valois (Walezjusze), built their power on the multireligious structure of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. They did not intend to follow the western model of a single religion Roman Catholic state, with one dominating Latin culture. Their stand resulted from the ethnic structure of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. During the Jagiellonian dynasty, the Orthodox religion became a national and folk denomination, through the omnipresence of various forms of cult and rites. The power of the Commonwealth was based on its recognition by the Orthodox Ruthenian population of the Crown and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania as their own state. Good multireligious and multicultural cohabitation was shaken by the 1596 Union of Brest (Unia Brzeska). The Union of Brest undermined the main element of Ruthenian culture, based on its spiritual unity with Byzantium. A medial element, situated between the two traditions, was added to the existing Catholic-Orthodox model. The Union’s initiators were mistaken in their beliefs that its attractiveness would move Ruthenians from the Orthodox Church. Despite this tendency, the fall of Orthodox culture did not take place; on the contrary, it developed in new forms, which were more adequate to 17th century’s reality. Consequently, the Union of Brest did not turn against the Orthodox Church assuch, but the Orthodox Church in the Commonwealth. The Union of Brest was in some aspects beneficial for the Roman Catholic Church, yet it did not solve any of the internal problems of the state. In Poland the distance between Polish elites and Ruthenian culture increased. A Protestant, brought up in western culture, was closer to a Catholic than a Ruthenian following Byzantine traditions, though increasingly more and more immersed in Polish culture.

Antoni Mironowicz, Ks. Michał Bożerianow i jego odpowiedź „ludziom małym”, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku, Białystok 2015, 131 stron

Author(s): Urszula Anna Pawluczuk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 14/2016