Shaping religious identity on the Northern Edge of the Christianitas : portraits of Pagans and Idolaters in the Twelfth Century Pomerania

Dragnea, Mihai (author)

This study analyses the image of pagans and paganism in Pomerania during the first half of the twelfth century. It also analyses the relationship with idolatry known since early Christianity. The conversion of Pomeranians to Christianity took place by giving up the worship of idols and submission to the Christian faith. It was the obedience to the German ecclesiastical authorities and the Polish duke that caused the Pomeranians to be regarded as real Christians. This study shows that Pomeranian paganism appears as a Christian construct of a socio-religious identity, created to be an antithesis to Christianity.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Pomerania, Paganism, Idolatry, Christianization, Apostasy, Crusading
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: TEOF - Theological Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2021
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: Str. 243-273
• Numbering: Letn. 76, št. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-163559
• UDC: 257.2(430Pomeranija)
• ISSN on article: 2335-4127
• DOI: 10.34291/Edinost/76/02/Dragnea
• COBISS.SI-ID: 88751875
• Publication date in RUL: 08.10.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Edinost in dialog : revija za ekumensko teologijo in medreligijski dialog = Unity and dialogue : journal for ecumenical theology and interreligious dialogue
• Publisher: Založba Univerze v Ljubljani, Teološka fakulteta Univerze v Ljubljani, Enota v Mariboru in Inštitut Stanka Janežiča za dogmatično, osnovno in ekumensko teologijo ter religiologijo in dialog
• ISSN: 2335-4127
• COBISS.SI-ID: 268194560

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Oblikovanje verske identitete na severnem robu christianitasa : podobe poganov in malikovalcev v Pomeraniji dvanajstega stoletja

Abstract

Ta študija analizira podobe poganov in poganstva v Pomeraniji v prvi polovici dvanajstega stoletja. Analizira tudi razmerje z malikovanjem, kot je znano vse od zgodnjega krščanstva dalje. Pomeranijci so se spreobrnili v krščanstvo, s tem ko so prenehali častiti malike ter se predali krščanski veri. Zaradi svoje poslušnosti nemškim cerkvenim avtoritetam ter poljskemu vojvodi so veljali za prave kristjane. Ta študija pokaže, da je pomeranijsko poganstvo izvorno krščanski konstrukt družbeno-verske identitete, ki je bil ustvarjen kot antiteza krščanstvu.

• Keywords: Pomeranija, poganstvo, malikovanje, pokristjanjenje, odpadništvo, križarstvo