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Contemporary religious conflicts in Lemkovyna
Andrzej Stachowiak
Abstract
The term ‘Lemkovyna’ is a definition of a former ethnographical region, covering Beskid Niski, Eastern part of the Beskid Sadecki and Western part of the Bieszczady, which was inhabited until the end of 1947 by the Lemks – one of group of Ruthenian Carpathian highlanders, who counted circa 100-150 thousand people before the world war II. In this area there was 187 Lemkian villages and settlements at that time. As a result of the post-war deportation this population is now dispersed over western and northern Poland, as well as Ukraine. Only some of the Lemks stayed in their ‘homeland in the mountains’ or returned there in the 50's. Nowadays they stand for about 25% of the whole population of that area. The rest of the inhabitants consists of Polish post-war immigrants from different parts of the country, in the majority however – from neighboring, overpopulated foot-mountain villages. The term ‘contemporary’ with reference to religion conflict issue described in this work means a period since 1947 (the last stage of the Lemks’ deportation) to the present day (the beginning of XXI century). The main task of this paper was a comprehensive description and analysis of religious conflicts in Lemkovyna, which happened in this period or may happen in the future. Another task was the attempt to describe a behavioral model of local society in case of religious conflict and to work out a way to mitigate a religious quarrel.- Record ID
- UAMc0abae44285540e7af85d90b866b05be
- Diploma type
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Author
- Title in Polish
- Współczesne konflikty wyznaniowe na Łemkowszczyźnie
- Title in English
- Contemporary religious conflicts in Lemkovyna
- Language
- pol (pl) Polish
- Certifying Unit
- Faculty of History (FoH)
- Discipline
- ethnology / (humanities) / (humanities)
- Scientific discipline (2.0)
- Status
- Finished
- Defense Date
- 24-11-2010
- Title date
- 24-11-2010
- Supervisor
- URL
- http://hdl.handle.net/10593/676 Opening in a new tab
- Keywords in English
- Religious conflict, Religion, Lemks, Lemkovyna
- Abstract in English
- The term ‘Lemkovyna’ is a definition of a former ethnographical region, covering Beskid Niski, Eastern part of the Beskid Sadecki and Western part of the Bieszczady, which was inhabited until the end of 1947 by the Lemks – one of group of Ruthenian Carpathian highlanders, who counted circa 100-150 thousand people before the world war II. In this area there was 187 Lemkian villages and settlements at that time. As a result of the post-war deportation this population is now dispersed over western and northern Poland, as well as Ukraine. Only some of the Lemks stayed in their ‘homeland in the mountains’ or returned there in the 50's. Nowadays they stand for about 25% of the whole population of that area. The rest of the inhabitants consists of Polish post-war immigrants from different parts of the country, in the majority however – from neighboring, overpopulated foot-mountain villages. The term ‘contemporary’ with reference to religion conflict issue described in this work means a period since 1947 (the last stage of the Lemks’ deportation) to the present day (the beginning of XXI century). The main task of this paper was a comprehensive description and analysis of religious conflicts in Lemkovyna, which happened in this period or may happen in the future. Another task was the attempt to describe a behavioral model of local society in case of religious conflict and to work out a way to mitigate a religious quarrel.
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://researchportal.amu.edu.pl/info/phd/UAMc0abae44285540e7af85d90b866b05be/
- URN
urn:amu-prod:UAMc0abae44285540e7af85d90b866b05be