Modernizm i wyznania. Łódzka droga do nowoczesności zwyczajna czy wyjątkowa?
Modernism and denominations? Łódź’s Road to Modernity – Ordinary or Exceptional? Ewelina Maria Kostrzewska

Author(s): Ewelina Maria Kostrzewska
Subject(s): Cultural history, Local History / Microhistory, Culture and social structure
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: History of Łódź; history of religion; non-habitual orders; Honorat’s assemblies; Mariavitism; modernism in the Catholic Church
Summary/Abstract: The text presents the religious mosaic of Łódź. It shows why and how the network of connections, integrations, emancipatory splits and distinctiveness of religious associations was created. Against this background and on the indicated levels, I indicate where modernization and modernism appeared on a religious basis and what it meant. Did it open new fronts in the fight for modernity or maybe the opposite? The text presents the social dimension of religion with a look at the role of women. The question of redefining religious identity in the face of social democratization and the intensification of modernist trends came to the fore. Next, the role played by religion in the processes of integration and disintegration of the multinational city of Łódź. Modernity in Łódź in the form of religion had its own specificity of internal penetration of new currents drawn from Europe. She appeared in various relationships with tradition, including that transferred from the times of partition to the regained state. Issues of the influence of religion on modernity and viewing the urban fabric with churches, communities and denominations incorporated into its infrastructure are a new way of talking about modernist Łódź.

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