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Catholics in Belarus: the Deconstruction of Polish Identity?

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Catholics in Belarus: the Deconstruction of Polish Identity?The article discusses the transformations in the national identification of members of the younger generation of Catholics in Belarus through the context of the language changes resulting from the use of Belarussian in the Catholic Church and the increasing prestige attached to this language. The political transformations at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, which led to modifications in the situation of the Church in Belarus, have influenced these processes. Simultaneously, the model of religiosity has undergone reconstruction so that it has gradually ceased to be linked with issues of national identification. Religious practices are becoming a more personal matter and are less dependent on social pressure. Similarly, the choice of one’s nationality in a diverse society have become an individual matter. Katolicy na Bialorusi. Czy dekonstrukcja polskiej tozsamosci?Tematem artykulu sa przemiany identyfikacji narodowej mlodego pokolenia katolików na Bialorusi w kontekscie zmian jezykowych zwiazanych z uzywaniem w Kosciele katolickim jezyka bialoruskiego oraz wzrostem prestizu tego jezyka. Do tych procesów przyczynily sie przeobrazenia polityczne przelomu lat osiemdziesiatych i poczatku dziewiecdziesiatych XX wieku, które przyniosly zmiane w sytuacji Kosciola na Bialorusi. Równolegle miala miejsce przebudowa modelu religijnosci, który powoli odchodzi od zagadnien identyfikacji narodowej. Praktyki religijne i staja sie sprawa osobista, i mniej zaleza od presji spolecznej. Równiez wybory narodowosciowe w zróznicowanym spoleczenstwie sa sprawa indywidualna.

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