Czynnik religijny w procesie kształtowania nowego wymiaru nordyckiej wspólnoty kulturowej
Religious Factor in the Process of Shaping the New Dimension of the Nordic Cultural Community

Summary/Abstract: The religious factor was an unseperable part of the historical processes of shaping Nordic unity—for example the community of the Nordic polytheism domination period, the Christian community of the 9–13th centuries, the community of the Reformation. Simultanously, the same phenomena presented, at least in the first stage, a challenge to the established cultural and religious order, and bore the risk of prolonged disintegration. This dichotomous role of the religious factor in the face of cultural homogeneity is also emerging today as expansive Islam has become a new challenge. In view of the crisis of the multiculturalism idea, two social trends have emerged suggesting a renewal of ethnic identity while strenghtening the cultural Nordic community both the systemic and nativist as well as the anti-system and anticracial direction.

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