Faith and fatigue in the Extreme Way of the Cross in Poland

Siekierski, Konrad

doi:10.1080/09637494.2018.1456767

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“…Recent cults dedicated, for instance, to Father Pio, Divine Mercy, Saint Rita, or Saint Charbel attract Polish Catholics, who are seeking new forms of spirituality. The Charismatic Catholicism that focuses on personal spirituality and healing (understood in physical and spiritual terms) has inspired new pilgrimage rituals, such as the Extreme Way of the Cross, an overnight 40 km run dedicated to prayer and meditation on the Passion of Christ (Siekierski 2018) or the Camino routes invented in various parts of Poland. Many of these new pilgrimages are not Marian-oriented, even though they might include "traditional" Marian shrines and images into their routes and itineraries.…”

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Constructing Mary through Pilgrimages: Lived Catholic Mariology in Poland

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2023

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This article presents selected aspects of Marian pilgrimages in the context of lived Catholicism in Poland. Lived Catholic Mariology is a concept introduced in this paper and discussed in terms of the intimate as well as communal relationships people establish with Mary through and in various rituals (e.g., pilgrimages), sites (e.g., shrines) and objects (e.g., images). Links between materializing Mary through images; affective, sensual and corporeal religious experiences; and community bonding are presented. They are discussed by drawing on approaches that refer to material religion, religion as mediation, concepts of sensational forms, and aesthetic formations. When examining the centrality of Marian images in Polish pilgrimage practices, this paper focuses on earlier developments, especially (1) those connected with the growth of Marian shrines during the Counter Reformation period and (2) the role played by traditional and innovative Marian pilgrimages during the Communist period in Poland (1945–1989). The final part of the paper refers to the recent changes connected with political polarization of Polish society, the process of radicalization through right-wing discourses that embrace Marian imagery and pilgrimages, the decline of Roman Catholicism and Catholic practices among Poles, and emerging alternative currents relating to Mary and pilgrimages in religious and secular contexts. Referring to various historical and current examples, this paper proposes seeing pilgrimages through the lived religion approach with a focus on materiality and mediatory dimension of religion.

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“…For instance, Kora (Olga Jackowska, 1951-2018, a Polish rock vocalist, became fascinated with the figure of Mary. She artistically painted Marian statues, relating them to female universal power, nature, indigenous traditions, and Zen.…”

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Connecting Earth and Heaven: Tsar Cross Processions, Spiritual Infrastructure, and Orthodox Christian Citizenship

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2024

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This article develops Michel de Certeau’s concept of utopian space and applies it to the Russian Orthodox realities, considering space as created by practices and legitimized by certain texts. It argues that Russian Orthodox utopian space evokes social emotions of collectivity and belonging. The article analyses how utopian space is created and maintained in popular religious performances through walking, prayer chanting, the language of spiritual warfare, and the notion of spiritual gaze. It focuses on the tsar cross processions in Ekaterinburg which commemorate the violent death of Nicholas II and his family in 1918.

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Faith and fatigue in the Extreme Way of the Cross in Poland

Cited by 3 publications

References 18 publications

Constructing Mary through Pilgrimages: Lived Catholic Mariology in Poland

Constructing Mary through Pilgrimages: Lived Catholic Mariology in Poland

Local Heritage in Contemporary Times: Artistic Creation and the Intangibilities of Place

Connecting Earth and Heaven: Tsar Cross Processions, Spiritual Infrastructure, and Orthodox Christian Citizenship

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