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Janusz  Barański

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The mystical dimension of flood

The subject of the article is Lucien Lévy-Bruhl’s concept of mystical participation, which was used by him to explain “strange” non-European cultural phenomena from the perspective of the European scientific rationality. This approach, modified by Stanley Tambiah, was used in the article to explain a natural disaster, here – floods, which took place in southern Poland in 2010. The empirical material are the discussions on the Internet, which perceive the cause of flooding in the interference of various external forces, which are ascribed the extraordinary characteristics (the government of one of the neighboring countries, the divine punishment, etc.). This mode of thought is similar to the structures of magical thinking present in non-European societies described by Levy-Bruhl. The above leads to the conclusion that the idea of mystical participation is not characteristic only for primitive pre-logic, but is present in the minds and practice of contemporary Westerners.

The mystical dimension of flood

The subject of the article is Lucien Lévy-Bruhl’s concept of mystical participation, which was used by him to explain “strange” non-European cultural phenomena from the perspective of the European scientific rationality. This approach, modified by Stanley Tambiah, was used in the article to explain a natural disaster, here – floods, which took place in southern Poland in 2010. The empirical material are the discussions on the Internet, which perceive the cause of flooding in the interference of various external forces, which are ascribed the extraordinary characteristics (the government of one of the neighboring countries, the divine punishment, etc.). This mode of thought is similar to the structures of magical thinking present in non-European societies described by Levy-Bruhl. The above leads to the conclusion that the idea of mystical participation is not characteristic only for primitive pre-logic, but is present in the minds and practice of contemporary Westerners.

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magic., mystical participation, pre-logic

mystical participation, pre-logic, magic.

Bibliografia

Adeney-Risakotta B., 2009 Is there a Meaning in Natural Disasters? Constructions of Culture, Religion and Science, „Exchange” 38, s. 226–43.
Cassirer E., 1946 Th e Myth of the State, New Haven.
Geertz C., 2005 Interpretacja kultur. Wybrane eseje, przeł. M. Piechaczek, Kraków.
Lévy-Bruhl L.,
1973 Notebooks on Primitive Mentality, przeł. P. Rivière, Oxford.
1992 Czynności umysłowe w społeczeństwach pierwotnych, przeł. B. Szwarcman-Czarnota, Warszawa.
Tambiah S., 2007 Magia, nauka, religia a zakres racjonalności, przeł. B. Hlebowicz, Kraków.

Źródła internetowe
Źródło internetowe 1: http://www.jasnagora.com [dostęp: 28.01.2011].
Źródło internetowe 2: http://prawdaxlxpl.wordpress.com/2010/06/04/pytania-z-jasnejgory-czy-powodzie-w-polsce-powoduja-tajemnicze-samoloty [ dostęp: 28.01.2010].
Źródło internetowe 3: http://nadblog-wszystkich-blogow.blog.onet.pl/7291775,407749448,1,200,200,84914262,407754315,8669016,0,forum.html [dostęp: 28.01.2010].
Źródło internetowe 4: http://polskalokalna.pl/raport/poludnie-polski-walczy-z-woda/news/plock-zagrozony-wisla-zalala-ulice/komentarze,1482481,1,30683599,3 [dostęp:28.01.2010].
Źródło internetowe 5: (http://koniecswiata.info/przepowiednie-nostradamusa [dostęp:28.01.2010].

Informacje

Informacje: Prace Etnograficzne, 2011, Tom 39, s. 37 - 44

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/22999558.PE.11.002.0931

Typ artykułu: Oryginalny artykuł naukowy

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Polski: Mistyczny wymiar powodzi

Angielski: The mystical dimension of flood

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Janusz Barański

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6917-4557

Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie, Polska, ul. Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków

Publikacja: 01.06.2011

Status artykułu: Otwarte

Licencja: Żadna

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