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The Image and the Figure Our Lady of Czestochowa in Polish Culture and Popular Religion

by Anna Niedzwiedz
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9788323329008
  • Binding: Paperback
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  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press
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  • Original Price: USD 40.0
  • Language: English
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  • Item Weight: 326 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Anthropology / General

The image of Our Lady of Czestochowa is the most famous and the most venerated holy image in Poland. In contemporary Poland the image is a kind of a cultural icon, instantly recognizable and connected with popular symbolic and mythological meanings. Presented in this book is an analysis of beliefs, narratives (great and small stories), myths, and rituals. This analysis reveals that for its devotees the image is not merely a material object and a picture—it is perceived, lived, and experienced as a real person—figure of Mary—Queen and Mother.

Anna Niedzwiedz is an anthropologist teaching at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. Her main focus is on contemporary approaches to religion and its relation to media and visual art. Her other research projects deal with the symbolic dimension of urban space in East-Central European cities in the context of changing notions of heritage and historical memory in post-communist societies. Currently she is working on new anthropological research concerning religious experience and popular Catholicism in West African societies (with particular focus on Ghana).

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