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Volume 56 Issue 3

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Publication date: 2024

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Czasopismo dofinansowane przez Uniwersytet Jagielloński ze środków Inicjatywy Doskonałości na Wydziale Filozoficznym i Instytutu Religioznawstwa.

The publication of this volume was financed by the Jagiellonian University in Kraków – Institute of Religious Studies.

Cover design: Barbara Widłak

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Editor-in-Chief Małgorzata Grzywacz, Elżbieta Przybył-Sadowska

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Ewelina Drzewiecka

Studia Religiologica, Volume 56 Issue 3, 2023, pp. 1 - 17

https://doi.org/10.4467/20844077SR.23.009.19997
The aim of the paper is an attempt to problematise the concept of Bulgarian Orthodox identity in relation to the national “great narrative” and the role of literature and literary studies, and as a result, to go beyond the traditional research approach to the notion of Bulgarian religiosity. Two observations serve as a starting point: 1) the idea of religion / religiosity is one of the main themes of the discourse of the national elite; 2) Bulgarians commonly declare attachment to the Orthodox tradition, but the percentage of believers is low; therefore, the sociological conceptualisations based on the famous phrase “believing without belonging” (G. Davie) seem accurate. The paper raises the question of the ideological foundations of perceiving and explaining religious phenomena in Bulgaria, and the emphasis is on the local meaning of the religious and its crypto-theological entanglements as captured and manifested in local literary studies.
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Daria Mazur

Studia Religiologica, Volume 56 Issue 3, 2023, pp. 19 - 33

https://doi.org/10.4467/20844077SR.23.010.19998

The article is an attempt to combine film and theological thoughts in relation to the film Wszystkie nasze strachy, in which the protagonist is modeled on the contemporary Polish visual artist Daniel Rycharski. His declarations, experience, and attitude confirm the validity of using the tropes related to the elements of the concept of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s religionless Christianity for analyzing the film. The concept provides arguments that expand the possibility to consider the film and the protagonist’s creation in the perspective of the postmodern identity discourse with the contents that correspond with the phenomena and processes inscribed in the postsecular tendencies. The interpretations presented in the article take into account the context of non-heteronormativity and the manifestations of homophobia in a small rural community presented in the story, and also focus on the category of relationality, contemplativeness, identification, and movement, as well as the antinomy of religion and faith and Christocentrism. 

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Matylda Ciołkosz

Studia Religiologica, Volume 56 Issue 3, 2023, pp. 35 - 49

https://doi.org/10.4467/20844077SR.23.011.19999
The paper is a summary of a pilot study applying George Lakoff’s concept of moral politics in a Polish context. The part of the study under discussion involved an analysis of articles published in Polish left-wing press between 2019 and 2021, focusing on the issue of LGBTQIA+ rights. The results of the analysis support Lakoff’s thesis that the way socio-political views are framed and expressed depends on an implicitly applied cognitive model of morality. The author discusses the conceptual metaphors of morality applied by the studied authors, relating them to the nurturant parent model of morality postulated by Lakoff, and providing preliminary insights into how Polish moral politics differs from its American counterpart.
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Joanna Katarzyna Puchalska

Studia Religiologica, Volume 56 Issue 3, 2023, pp. 51 - 69

https://doi.org/10.4467/20844077SR.23.012.20000
The article focuses on the presence of elements derived from Japan’s native religion, shintō, visible in contexts referring to Japanese swords, nihontō. The text briefly discusses the idea of kami in Shintoism and touches on mythological stories about Japanese deities in which the sword plays an important role, and then describes Japanese edged weapons, focusing on swords of the feudal era. Subsequently, the author pays attention to the process of forging the blade, the work of blacksmiths, and beliefs regarding Japanese swords, including the custom of offering nihontō to the gods. The final paragraphs are devoted to martial arts and etiquette associated with weapons in Japan.
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