Kościół ewangelicki augsburskiego wyznania na Śląsku Cieszyńskim na przełomie XIX i XX wieku a poszukiwanie tożsamości językowo-narodowej
The Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Cieszyn Silesia at the turn of the 20th century and searching for language and national identity

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the constituent parts of the identity of the Evangelical Church Augsburg Confessions (Lutheran) in Cieszyn Silesia from the 2nd half of the 19th century to 1945. The statutory time frames have allowed to trace the correlates of national culture, which is sourced in 19th century national movements. They led to the construction, of a retrospective national history, in which in first place was a unique position of the Polish language and the confessional identity was defined in terms of Polishness. This predetermined national-religious pattern set for a period of about 100 years the nature of the Lutheran Church in Cieszyn Silesia. The article, in addition to the theoretical part, was supplemented with the author’s own study of archival documents of the seven Zaolzian Protestant congregations.

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