„Ducha wiary obudzić, myśl zbłąkaną sprostować…”. Opinie publicystów związanych z Kościołem katolickim o czytelnictwie ludowym w Królestwie Polskim w drugiej połowie XIX wieku
„Awaken the spirit of faith, and straighten wandering thought…”. Opinions of columnist writers connected with the Catholic church on people’s reading in the Duchy of Poland in the second half of the 19th century

Author(s): Anna Karczewska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: One of the key issues of a public debate in the Duchy of Poland in the second half of the 19th centurywas the problem of people’s education. It was a common knowledge that the Catholic church, as aninstitution recognized as a big authority in rural environments, could play an important role in solving it.The clergy were expected to initiate the foundation of elementary schools and libraries in the countryside.In the meantime, their intellectual potential and limitations of a political nature did not facilitate theiractivity in this respect. However, it was church representatives who often took responsibility for popularizingeducation in their rural parishes. The main aim of these actions consisted in moral development,whereas the main means to this goal was religious books and press for rural readers. A discussion on thecontents, cognitive advantages and formal features of this type of publication is a key to understand ideologicaldilemmas which modeled the awareness of the 19th century observers of social reality.

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