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- Title
TRADITIONS IN MOTION: ON THE MYTH OF JOHN PAUL II IN THE POLISH CATHOLIC DISCOURSE (2005-2013).
- Authors
GRIFFANTE, ANDREA
- Abstract
It is commonly accepted by scholars of nationalism that national mythologies represent a key point for the shaping, definition, and legitimization of nations. Although the centrality of civic religions, their rituals and ceremonies for the formation and development of nations and of their sub-groups cannot be denied, the role of traditional religion in national symbolism and mythologies has often been unjustly neglected. After 1989, not only could Poland use symbolic figures from its own religious tradition, but also add to its own national pantheon a new hero linking the religious and the secular: Pope John Paul II. In Polish Catholic discourse, two main myths emerged expressing the two main directions of contemporary Polish Catholicism. On the one hand, the liberal myth of John Paul II expresses the ecumenical and Europe-oriented views of the larger strata of the Polish Catholics. On the other hand, the martyrological-romantic myth of John Paul II is supported by a minority belonging to the Polish conservative strata and sees John Paul II as the last hero of the Polish Romantic tradition.
- Subjects
POLAND; NATIONALISM; MYTHOLOGY; MANNERS &; customs; JOHN Paul II, Pope, 1920-2005; DISCOURSE; CATHOLIC Church
- Publication
Darbai ir Dienos, 2013, Issue 60, p237
- ISSN
1392-0588
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7220/2335-8769.60.11