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Catholic inculturation of the Uniate Church: Basilian hagiography of the 17th and 18th centuries

Project description

Uniate Church adaptation to Catholic culture

The Union of Brest in 1596 bridged the divide between Catholicism and Orthodoxy, establishing the Uniate Church in the region spanning from Lithuania through Poland and Belarus to Ukraine. This led to the development of local monastic structures, specifically the Basilians. Research on Uniate and Basilian literacy has focused on Basilian books and printing history. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) programme, the BasInCult project analyses 17th and 18th-century hagiographic writings to understand how the Uniates and Basilians used them to adapt the Uniate Church to Catholic culture. AAdditionally, it examines how they incorporated their issues in mainstream Catholic discourse. The project focuses on saint figures like Josaphat Kuntsevych, works such as Menologium bazyliańskie, and hagiographers like Ignacy Kulczyński.

Objective

"In early modern period, the long-lived rift between Catholicism and Orthodoxy was overbridged by the Union of Brest (1596): it established the Uniate Church in the region reaching from Lithuania through Poland and Belarus to Ukraine, and it was the basis for the development of local monastic structures, the Basilians. While the research on Uniate and Basilian literacy, significantly underrepresented in an international discourse on post-Tridentine Christianity and its culture, is interested mostly in Basilian book and printing history, BasInCult pursues for the first time a detailed and qualitative analysis of the writings about the saints and candidates to sanctity (hagiography), who had a programmatic and symbolic meaning, in a wide spectrum of literary forms created and circulated in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is argued that the Uniates and Basilians used hagiographic sources not only to adapt Uniate Church to the framework of the Catholic culture, but especially to include their issues in the mainstream of Catholic discourse. Focusing on the instructive examples of saint figures (e.g. Josaphat Kuntsevych), works (e.g. ""Menologium bazyliańskie""), and hagiographers who served also as Order’s officials (Ignacy Kulczyński), the project demonstrates the strategies of such a mutual adaption process (regarded as inculturation) which had a vast impact on shaping the confessional and cultural landscape of today’s central-eastern Europe. The project will be affiliated at Vilnius University, in an exceptional environment of the specialists in Uniate history and Basilian monasticism; in addition, it will be carried out close to the text sources held in a great part in Vilnius, one of the main centres of Basilian activities. The results will be published in an article and a short book monograph which will both aim at popularising the project’s topic and themes."

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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships

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Coordinator

VILNIAUS UNIVERSITETAS
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€ 142 757,76
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UNIVERSITETO G. 3
01513 Vilnius
Lithuania

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Region
Lietuva Sostinės regionas Vilniaus apskritis
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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