Językowe przejawy tożsamości religijnej w zbiorze Bogowie fałszywi – słowa, motywy, strategie
Language manifestations of religious identity in a collection False Gods – the words, themes, strategies

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the study is to identify and describe the language exponents of religious doctrine present in sixteenth-century anonymous collection of songs False Gods, which is one of the few testimonies of poetic battles of words coming from the gathering of the Polish Brethren. The central concept of the text is the religious identity, understood as a set of values, beliefs perceptions, symbols and patterns of behavior. Its identification is made by analyzing vocabulary, expressive connections of different status, and the conceptualizations of various concepts and elements of reality. This has allowed to describe the relationship with God and his conceptualization, basic truths of faith, attitude to life and to indicate the source of beliefs. From the volume emerges dichotomous view of reality resulting from a confrontation with an alien. We get the characteristics of “US” (belonging to Polish brothers) by polemical description of „THEM” (the Catholics).

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