‘John-Paul-the-Second-isation’ of cultural landscape in Poland

Przybylska, Lucyna; Sołjan, Izabela

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“…The projects aimed at commemorating John Paul II implemented at the Museum of the Holy Father John Paul II Family Home in Wadowice should be primarily addressed to people born towards the end of the pontificate of John Paul II and after his death, so to people who have not personally experienced an encounter with the Polish Pope (Borutka, 2016). There is an immense potential in this respect in Poland, especially if one takes into account the fact that more than 1,200 schools are named after John Paul II (Przybylska, Sołjan, 2015). Thus, it seems necessary to continue developing an educational and cultural offering of the museum addressed to children and teenagers.…”

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“…The official opening of a new exhibition was held on 9 April 2014. Thanks to the application of modern multimedia presentation and display methods, museum visitors could learn about the life and heritage of St. John Paul II (Przybylska, Sołjan, 2015). The mission of the museum is to commemorate and popularise knowledge about the life and teaching of the Polish Pope.…”

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Religious and museum tourism to Museum of the Holy Father John Paul II Family Home in Wadowice

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The research was aimed at identifying changes in tourist traffic – religious tourism and museum tourism to the Museum of the Holy Father John Paul II Family Home in Wadowice in 1996–2019. The museum was opened in 1984 in the house where Karol Wojtyła, Pope John Paul II, was born in 1920. The thorough reconstruction between 2010 and 2014 resulted in the establishment of a museum with a modern multimedia narrative exhibition. In recent years, the museum has been visited by more than 200 thousand tourists a year, including 40 thousand foreigners from more than 100 countries worldwide. During the years 1996–2019 the number of international tourists rose more than twice. The greatest boom in the visits to the museum was noted in 2005 and was associated with the disease, death, funeral, and increasing worship of Pope John Paul II. Following decreased interest in visits to the museum during the period of 2010–2014, which was due to the museum renovation, a revival and increase in visits to the museum was observed again. Changes that were observed in the museum during the last twenty-five years were identified, among other things, thanks to field research involving observations and interviews with museum curators and staff. Analyses of tourist visits to the museum were based on detailed data provided by the museum managers. In the elaboration of the collected research results descriptive-analytical, dynamic-comparative and cartographic methods were used.

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Religious and museum tourism to Museum of the Holy Father John Paul II Family Home in Wadowice

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“…Therefore, there are streets, schools, hospitals, an airport named after him and about 800 monuments and 3 sanctuaries. The dynamics of its commemoration was so significant that there was talk of 'John-Paul-the-Second-isation' of cultural landscape in Poland (Przybylska and Sołjan 2015).…”

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Symbolic Religious Landscape: Religious and Patriotic Symbolism in the Pilgrimage Centres in Poland

2022

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Combining religious and national symbolism is not a new phenomenon. There are known examples of countries where there were or still are connections between nationality and religion. Pilgrimage centres are examples of symbolic religious landscapes based on the presence of the sacred. Such anthropogenic landscapes are a visible result of culture formed under the influence of religion, a special spiritual and often national heritage expressed through sacred objects, visual evidence of religiousness and, likewise, national identity. Here, we present a detailed analysis of religious and patriotic symbolism present in the largest pilgrimage centres in Poland. Additionally, the paper discusses a. the historical and socio-cultural conditions of the presence and significance of these elements in religious landscapes; b. the strong relationships between religiousness and the sense of national identity, and c. the resulting significant importance of pilgrimage centres in the development and consolidation of a sense of national identity. Symbolic elements in the analysed pilgrimage centres refer to both universal religious content and cults popular in the Roman Catholic Church, as well as to the identity of the analysed places. In addition to religious symbolism, national and patriotic symbols often occur in Polish sanctuaries. Their occurrence is historically conditioned and, to a large extent, results from the strong ties between religiousness and national identity.

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‘John-Paul-the-Second-isation’ of cultural landscape in Poland

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Religious and museum tourism to Museum of the Holy Father John Paul II Family Home in Wadowice

Religious and museum tourism to Museum of the Holy Father John Paul II Family Home in Wadowice

Symbolic Religious Landscape: Religious and Patriotic Symbolism in the Pilgrimage Centres in Poland

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