Did Secularization among Peasants in the Kingdom of Poland Accelerate in the Period 1906–1912? Peasants, Anticlericalism, and Religious Discourse under the Late Russian Imperial Regime

The Kingdom of Poland and its Catholic Church were in trouble in the last years of Russian imperial rule. Three of the Church’s major problems, the Mariavites, the anticlerical weekly Zaranie, and the Macoch affair in the Jasna Góra sanctuary, are objects of deliberation in this article. These calam...

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Main Author: Łukasz Kożuchowski
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Published: Verlag Herder Institut 2024-12-01
Series:Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Online Access:https://www.zfo-online.de/portal/zfo/article/view/11570/11454
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description The Kingdom of Poland and its Catholic Church were in trouble in the last years of Russian imperial rule. Three of the Church’s major problems, the Mariavites, the anticlerical weekly Zaranie, and the Macoch affair in the Jasna Góra sanctuary, are objects of deliberation in this article. These calamities accelerated a widescale process of secularization in the rural peasant population of Russian Poland. Questions are posed regarding the role of Russian imperial rule in the Kingdom in launching this secularization process. Other factors, such as rising levels of literacy and reading habits, could also have played a role. The text concentrates on the peasantry as the largest social group in the Kingdom, referencing ego documents (letters and memoirs) written by members of this social stratum as primary sources.
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spelling doaj-art-030302f0f7fd488482328ab7f69a136b2025-01-20T14:14:58ZdeuVerlag Herder InstitutZeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung0948-82942701-04492024-12-01734567590https://doi.org/10.25627/202474411570Did Secularization among Peasants in the Kingdom of Poland Accelerate in the Period 1906–1912? Peasants, Anticlericalism, and Religious Discourse under the Late Russian Imperial RegimeŁukasz Kożuchowski0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5774-2898University of WarsawThe Kingdom of Poland and its Catholic Church were in trouble in the last years of Russian imperial rule. Three of the Church’s major problems, the Mariavites, the anticlerical weekly Zaranie, and the Macoch affair in the Jasna Góra sanctuary, are objects of deliberation in this article. These calamities accelerated a widescale process of secularization in the rural peasant population of Russian Poland. Questions are posed regarding the role of Russian imperial rule in the Kingdom in launching this secularization process. Other factors, such as rising levels of literacy and reading habits, could also have played a role. The text concentrates on the peasantry as the largest social group in the Kingdom, referencing ego documents (letters and memoirs) written by members of this social stratum as primary sources.https://www.zfo-online.de/portal/zfo/article/view/11570/11454
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Did Secularization among Peasants in the Kingdom of Poland Accelerate in the Period 1906–1912? Peasants, Anticlericalism, and Religious Discourse under the Late Russian Imperial Regime
Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
title Did Secularization among Peasants in the Kingdom of Poland Accelerate in the Period 1906–1912? Peasants, Anticlericalism, and Religious Discourse under the Late Russian Imperial Regime
title_full Did Secularization among Peasants in the Kingdom of Poland Accelerate in the Period 1906–1912? Peasants, Anticlericalism, and Religious Discourse under the Late Russian Imperial Regime
title_fullStr Did Secularization among Peasants in the Kingdom of Poland Accelerate in the Period 1906–1912? Peasants, Anticlericalism, and Religious Discourse under the Late Russian Imperial Regime
title_full_unstemmed Did Secularization among Peasants in the Kingdom of Poland Accelerate in the Period 1906–1912? Peasants, Anticlericalism, and Religious Discourse under the Late Russian Imperial Regime
title_short Did Secularization among Peasants in the Kingdom of Poland Accelerate in the Period 1906–1912? Peasants, Anticlericalism, and Religious Discourse under the Late Russian Imperial Regime
title_sort did secularization among peasants in the kingdom of poland accelerate in the period 1906 1912 peasants anticlericalism and religious discourse under the late russian imperial regime
url https://www.zfo-online.de/portal/zfo/article/view/11570/11454
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