The desecularisation of religiousness or the secularisation of a pilgrimage? Religious tourism as an element of the Polish religiousness
Declining participation of the faithful in religious rituals, does not necessarily means the weakening of attachment to religion. In this text, religious tourism was analyzed as one of the practices gaining in importance for contemporary Catholics in Poland. The author poses the question about the m...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Polish |
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Polskie Towarzyrtwo Religioznawcze
2016
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Przegla̜d religioznawczy
Year: 2016, Issue: 4/262, Pages: 57-68 |
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| Summary: | Declining participation of the faithful in religious rituals, does not necessarily means the weakening of attachment to religion. In this text, religious tourism was analyzed as one of the practices gaining in importance for contemporary Catholics in Poland. The author poses the question about the meaning of this phenomenon. Characteristic features of religious tourism, as voluntariness and subjectivisation, autonomy and experiencing are considered attractive in today’s culture. On the one hand the Church control of religious tourism is weakened, on the other this ritual seems to be better than other religious practices in responding to the spiritual demands thereby increasing its role as a means of evangelization. The analysis also drew attention to several key issues that matter as far as modern Polish religious tourism and pilgrimage is concerned: the relationship between the sacred and the profane, the areas of community, commercialization, experience and voluntariness, the problem of secularization of pilgrimage. |
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| ISSN: | 2658-1531 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Przegla̜d religioznawczy
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