Earning heavenly salvation : peasant religion in Lesser Poland : mid-sixteenth to eighteenth centuries

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...

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Main Author Tomasz Wislicz, Wislicz
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Bern Peter Lang 2020
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Peter Lang Group
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Edition1
SeriesStudies in History, Memory and Politics
Subjects
Anna
Centuries
chłopów
confession
Counter-Reformation
duszne
Earning
Eighteenth
European history
General and world history
Heavenly
HISTORY
History and Archaeology
końca
Lesser
magic
Małopolska (Poland) > Church history
Małopolska (Poland) > Religious life and customs
małopolskich
Neriton
Nonfiction
Peasant
Peasants
Peasants > Religious life > Poland > Małopolska
Poland
popular religion
Powęska
połowy
Religijność
Religion
Religiousness
rural community
Salvation
sexual ethics
Sixteenth
Tomasz
wieku
Wislicz
Wolff
XVIII
Zarobić
zbawienie
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ISBN9783631823545
3631823541
9783631825631
3631825617
3631825625
9783631825617
3631825633
9783631825624
DOI10.3726/b17147

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Table of Contents:
  • Cover -- Copyright information -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- I. THE FRAMEWORK OF EARLY MODERN PEASANT RELIGION -- 1. The mediaeval legacy and Reformation influences -- 2. Counter-Reformation in the countryside: the participation of peasants in religious cult -- 3. Counter-Reformation in the countryside: the teaching and the sacraments -- 4. Early modern religious culture and peasant religion -- 5. Religious attitudes among the peasantry -- II. THE SOCIAL DIMENSION OF PEASANT RELIGION -- 1. The village community as a religious unit and ceremonial community -- 2. Religious confraternities in rural areas -- 3. Religion as the basis for the village's social structure -- 4. Social harmony as religious value -- 5. The role of religion-related individuals in the life of village communities -- III. THE ECONOMIC DIMENSION OF PEASANT RELIGION -- 1. The cost of participating in religious life -- 2. Obligations and duties towards the Church, iura stolae offerings -- 3. Customary offerings and contributions related to religious rites -- 4. Religious factors in peasants' economic lives -- IV. RELIGIOSITY AND MORALITY -- 1. The background behind the rural moral standards -- 2. The functioning of the peasant ethical system -- 3. Sexual ethics of peasants in the light of the Christian model -- 4. Confession and conscience -- 5. Fear of God and Divine punishment -- 6. Salvation and condemnation -- V. RELIGIOUSNESS AND SUPERSTITION -- 1. Magic and superstition in the peasant vision of the world -- 2. Magical practices in the countryside -- 3. Persecutions of witches in rural settings -- 4. Superstition Christianised -- 5. On the borderline of religion and magic -- CONCLUSION -- ABBREVIATIONS -- CODEWORDS OF FREQUENTLY QUOTED SOURCES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX