Znaczenie konfesji katolickiej w utrzymaniu polskości na Kaszubach na przełomie XIX i XX wieku
The role of Catholic confession in preserving Polishness in Kashubia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries

Summary/Abstract: The study discusses issues concerning the historical boundaries of Kashubia and the relations of their inhabitants with the Catholic church. The author attempted to determine whether the confession had an impact on the preservation of Polishness in this specific area. For Kashubians are a region of Poland in which the Kashubian and Polish traditions (including religious ones) are cultivated as equivalent. Based on historical and linguistic studies as well as selected literary texts, it can be assumed that the Kashubian people, thanks to belonging to the Catholic church, did not get Germanized, as was the case in the Pomeranian region, dominated in the nineteenth century by Protestantism.

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