Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: The article aims to show the belief in manifestation of the supernatural, i.e. miracles, visions, prophecies, and Satan’s activity as a compound of the quite influential current in contemporary religiosity in Poland, also in the institutional dimension. These phenomenon oblige us to revise the earlier opinion which linked the “miracular susceptibility” merely with the folk religiosity. In studying these phenomena a character of an approach adopted by a researcher is particularly important. The approaches which suspend judgement and hold back from immediate reduction, allow to understand the entirety of the intrinsic meanings, experiences and narratives concerning the phenomena being discussed, as well as indicate their external references. In the article, phenomenology is being identified as the theoretical and methodological orientation that can carry out these tasks.
Source: Opuscula Sociologica
Author: Anna Małgorzata Królikowska
Institution: University of Szczecin
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2742081834