Religion and politics in America and conflict in the public sphere
Anna Daszewska
Instytut Nauk Politycznych, Katedra Socjologii, Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie, ul. Dybowskiego 13, 11-041 Olsztyn , PolandAbstract
The text analyzes the ways of interpreting holidays as a form of reality different from everyday life referred to as celebration. In Polish traditional culture, everyday life was sharply contrasted with holidays and celebrations. In contemporary culture, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the interpretations given to holidays are shallow in the sense that the unusual penetrates the boundary separating the sacred from the profane, the everyday from the unusual, and the holidays and celebrations become a symbol of tradition. It is tradition, understood as a transgenerational transmission of content, that relates the interpretations given to the celebration to the imagined ideals of perfection, happiness, wealth, extravagance, beauty and hospitality treated as significant forms of the unusualness of the holidays. Although nowadays these ideals permeate everyday life, they lose interpretations referring to cultural tradition and introduce an understanding of the unusual as an unreal sphere of reality.
Keywords:
celebration, unusualness of holidays, extraordinariness of celebrationReferences
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