Szatan i jego słudzy. Rola diabła i demonów w łacińskiej literaturze hagiograficznej IV-V w., Kraków: Universitas, 2003 [Satan and his Servants: the Role of the Devil and Demons in Early Latin Hagiography, 281 p., in Polish] (original) (raw)

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Chrześcijanie w łagrze (w wybranych dziełach literatury polskiej i rosyjskiej)

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The aim of this article is to reflect on the religiosity of Stalinist prisoners shaped by religion or the Christian tradition. A comparison of works of Polish and Russian literature demonstrates that prisoners from the Soviet Union and Poland essentially otherwise referred to the faith, to the Decalogue. Most of the inmates came into the camp from the country’s militant atheism, infected with a hostility to religion as “the opium of the masses”, and only in the camp were they looking for ways to return to the faith of their fathers. However, they often kept faith in the value of humanity, they represented a secular holiness. A substantial majority of Polish prisoners affirmed their Catholicism, which was not only a witness of their faith, but also synonymous with Polish culture. Such an attitude often hampered relations with the Orthodox and Greek Catholics. A large part of the Polish inmates reluctantly referred to them as Christians of the Eastern Rite, as a consequence of Catholi...

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Szatan i jego słudzy. Rola diabła i demonów w łacińskiej literaturze hagiograficznej IV-V w., Kraków: Universitas, 2003 [Satan and his Servants: the Role of the Devil and Demons in Early Latin Hagiography, 281 p., in Polish] (original) (raw)

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