TY - JOUR
TI - Przejawy sekularyzacji i religijność w Gdańsku na przełomie XVIII i XIX w. w świetle relacji pamiętnikarskich i prasowych
AU - Kościelak, Sławomir
TI - Przejawy sekularyzacji i religijność w Gdańsku na przełomie XVIII i XIX w. w świetle relacji pamiętnikarskich i prasowych
AB - 
	A big and important economic and cultural centre in northern‑east Europe, enjoying considerable autonomy in the times of the Republic, inhabited by people of different faiths, especially by Lutherans, at the turn of 18th and 19th centuries, Gdansk experienced political and civilisation changes. After the partitions, in 1793, it became part of the Kingdom of Prussia, and in the era of Napoleonic wars 1807–1814, it turned to Free City of Danzig. After numerous tumultuous events, it returned to Prussia. The turn of centuries was the time of the state’s stricter control over and interference into religion, no matter what faith. Church institutions, their people and facilities were treated like objects, just as other secular subjects were. The top‑down secularisation was accompanied by peculiar bottom‑up secularisation: the sphere of profanum entered the sphere of sacrum (eg. concerts), activity of religious fraternities and societies was weakened, individual devotion either vanished or became just a rut. Despite that, churches of all faiths bustled, the press informed about banns or even about the order of services in churches. In extremely difficult times of siege to the city, namely in 1807 and 1813, religious behaviour even intensified. When Gdansk was integrated to Prussia again, which Congress of Vienna in 1815 confirmed, the two tendencies revealed in parallel with each other and were characteristic of the whole 19th century: secularisation and treating people from religious associations like objects by the state on the one hand, and intensified devotion of the faithful in some parts of society on the other.
VL - 2016
IS - Volume 7 (2016)
PY - 2016
SN - 2081-3309
C1 - 2391-6001
SP - 75
EP - 103
DO - 10.4467/23916001HG.16.004.6389
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-historica-gedanensia/article/przejawy-sekularyzacji-i-religijnosc-w-gdansku-na-przelomie-xviii-i-xix-w-w-swietle-relacji-pamietnikarskich-i-prasowych