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Religious Materialities, Aesthetics, and Protests in Urban Poland: Religious Icons and the Re-Emergence of Civil Society.
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Material Religion . Dec2023, Vol. 19 Issue 5, p506-524. 19p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- In this paper, we reflect on the creativity and social change nexus in urban Poland by focusing on the recent religion-linked materialities in Kraków. Such materialities, or religious icons, are directly involved with transformations and the emergence of a new type of Polish civil society and activism. Therefore, we elaborate on the notion of religious icons involved in the recent re-emergence of the protest culture in Poland. We reframe them in terms of powerful socio-religious mediators that open the way to re-imagining and claiming new (re)configurations between social and religious fields in Poland. We acknowledge the role played by affective, creative, and semantic modalities of aesthetics vis-à-vis social change and suggest rethinking the link between creativity and religion, which we consider emblematic of current epistemologies of post-secular urbanities in Poland. We claim that the religion-creativity nexus should be included in the analytical framework examining contemporary developments of Polish civil society in general and social movements in particular. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17432200
- Volume :
- 19
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Material Religion
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 175034548
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2023.2285568