OBRAZA UCZUĆ RELIGIJNYCH – KATEGORIA PRAWNA, LINGWISTYCZNA I KULTUROWA. PROBLEM JĘZYKOWY I SYSTEMOWY
Obraza uczuć religijnych (insult to religious feelings) – a legal, linguistic, cultural category. A linguistic and systemic problem

Summary/Abstract: This paper is dedicated to a complex legal, linguistic and social category, namely obraza uczuć religijnych (insult to religious feelings). Defi nitions of terms such as uczucia religijne (religious feelings) and obraza uczuć religijnych found in normative acts, judicial decisions and doctrine studies were analysed and described. Due to the nature of this paper and the social context, the interpretation of the principles of Catholicism was also included in the research. The aim of the conducted analyses was to determine the meaning of concepts such as uczucia religijne and obraza uczuć religijnych in light of statutory and cultural determinants shaping the secular state of law with Christian roots. The principles of the linguistic and systemic interpretation were chosen as the methodological basis of the research. The overview revealed the unstable pragmatic position of the discussed categories. It was established that the main cause of the interpretational instability was the difficulty to adopt a unanimous standpoint regarding the meaning of the lexeme obraza (insult) being part of the term obraza uczuć religijnych. A correlation between the secular law and the canonical doctrine was identified and described in the course of the examination. This part of the study presents how legislative and case-law texts are connected with Christian values.

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