,,Restytucja” cmentarza ewangelickiego w Radzewicach jako przykład dziedziczenia funeralnego na terenach postimigracyjnych Polski
‘Restitution’ of the Evangelical Cemetery at Radzewice as an Example of Funerary Inheritance in Postimmigratory Areas of Poland
Author(s): Marcin FilarySubject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Other Christian Denominations, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Biblioteka Kórnicka PAN
Keywords: cemetery; Protestantism; inheritance; commemoration;
Summary/Abstract: This paper analyses, using the recently restored Evangelical cemetery at Radzewice as an example, the circumstances of the phenomenon which should be described as funerary inheritance. The cemetery, just like tens of other cemeteries in its nearest vicinity, fell into oblivion after the Evangelical community was displaced. However, in contrast to the majority of non-Catholic burial sites in the region, its further decomposition and ruination were stopped owing to the activity of the persons indicated in the publication. The above was possible in view of certain specific local relations, the existence of which formed the basis of the inheritance process. Above all, they included the dominance of individual memory over the collective and the national memory, and the preserved sense of sacred space, connected with the area, space of the cemetery. The reconstruction of the former cemetery chapel was a harbinger of the restitution of the cemetery, which was carried out in the late 1980s. Its circumstances and consequences, i.e. the establishment of a memorial site and a new Catholic cemetery next to the former Evangelical cemetery, now covered by maintenance, picture the funerary inheritance announced by the title of this paper.
Journal: Pamiętnik Biblioteki Kórnickiej
- Issue Year: 2023
- Issue No: 40
- Page Range: 103-128
- Page Count: 28
- Language: Polish