Earning heavenly salvation : peasant religion in lesser poland. mid-sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / Tomasz Wiślicz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wiślicz, Tomasz, author.

Series:

Geschichte - Erinnerung - Politik studies in history, memory and politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Małopolska (Poland)--Religious life and customs.

Małopolska (Poland).

Małopolska (Poland)--Church history.

Poland--Małopolska.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2020.

Summary:

"The book offers a comprehensive model of religious culture of peasants of the Lesser Poland in the early modern times. Its principal research topic is the influence of religion on the life and attitudes of peasants in the period of religious and social transformations resulting from the introduction of the Tridentine reform of the Catholic Church in the period starting from the peak of the Reformation movements in Poland to the Enlightenment reforms and the fall of the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth. Due to the fact that the study focuses on an illiterate group, its issues primarily concern the so-called external religiosity of peasants as a group, discussing its social, communal, and economic aspect, along with its impact on the formation of social ethics and individual morals, beliefs, and folk rituals." -- Publisher, page four of cover.

Contents:

Introduction. A peasant religion, or popular religion?

Chronological freamework and geographical aspects : records and other sources explored

Postscript

I. The framework of early modern peasant religion. The mediaeval legacy and Reformation influences

Counter-Reformation in the countryside : the participation of peasants in religious cult

Counter-Reformation in the countryside : the teaching and the sacraments

Early modern religious culture and peasant religion

Religious attitudes among the peasantry

The social dimension of peasant religion. The village community as a religious unit and ceremonial community

Religious confraternities in rural areas

Religion as the basis for the village's social structure

Social harmony as religious value

The role of religion-related individuals in the life of village communities

The economic dimension of peasant religion. The cost of participating in religious life

Obligations and duties towards the Church, iura stolae offerings

Customary offerings and contributions related to religious rites

Religious factors in peasants' economic lives

Religiosity and morality. The background behind the rural moral standards

The functioning of the peasant ethical system

Sexual ethics of peasants in the light of the Christian model

Confession and conscience

Fear of God and Divine punishment

Salvation and condemnation

Religiousness and superstition. Magic and superstition in the peasant vision of the world

Magical practices in the countryside

Persecutions of witches in rural settings

Superstition Christianised

On the borderline of religion and magic

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783631825624

3631825625

9783631825617

3631825617