Title: | Przemysł i religia – wielokulturowe skutki związku. Przykład Zagłębia Dąbrowskiego |
Authors: | Rusek, Halina |
Keywords: | Dąbrowa Basin, multicultural and multireligious region, industrial revolution, modernization, historical memories |
Issue Date: | 2015 |
Publisher: | Univezita sv. Cyrila a Metoda w Trnave (SR), Slovak Academy of Sciences Bratislava (SR) |
Citation: | ETHNOLOGIA EUROPAE CENTRALIS, 12/2015, s. 29-45 |
Abstract: | Zagłębie Dąbrowskie or Dąbrowa Basin - a sub-region of present Silesia voivodeship - belongs to
those areas in Europe where we can observe the relationship between rapid industrialization,
urbanization and modernization and cultural development. The Basin and similar regions are a
microcosm of the effects of the processes which take place at a crucial time for Europe's industrial
revolution and for the creation of a new social-cultural and political order on the basis of the
revolution. In the nineteenth century the region has been transformed from a typical agricultural
area into an industrial one, located in the Prussian-Austrian-Russian borderland of states and
cultures. The Basin is one of the genuinely multicultural areas where growing industry has caused
the inflow of foreign capital, and thus foreign industrialists and workers. The land quickly became
an ethnic and cultural mosaic of German, French, Russian, Jewish and other cultural influences,
with industrialists becoming patrons and protectors of this colourful cultural mix. These processes
are particularly well visible in the field of religion whose diverse forms have found their place in the
region. Beside the Catholic Church, of particular significance were the Lutheran and Orthodox
Churches as well as Judaism, the latter reflecting a strong presence of Jewish population in the
area. Today the cultural diversity manifests itself only in the form of material evidence of the past
and in weak historical memory - and constitutes a yet-to-be-discovered source of knowledge about
phenomena which occur in regions with an atypical variant of multiculturalism. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/3708 |
ISBN: | 978-80-8105 |
ISSN: | 1210-1109 |
Appears in Collections: | Artykuły (WSiNoE)
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