Ethno-Religious Heritage of Former Eastern Territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in Contemporary Poland [PDF]
The main objective of this paper is to present the national and religious heritage of the Eastern Borderlands in contemporary Poland. The paper deals with the genesis and selected aspects of the spatial development of the ethnic and religious minorities (
Rykała, Andrzej
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Orthodox Education in Poland during the Interwar Period [PDF]
The article examines the system of Orthodox education in Poland in the interwar period between the two World Wars. It gives a brief overview of the most significant educational institutions of the Orthodox Church for clergy and laity that existed on the ...
Antoni Mironovicz
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Architecture of Jesuit Churches in the Former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1564–1773 [PDF]
The article presents the history and accomplishments of Jesuit architecture in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth century.
Betlej, Andrzej
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Orthodox churches inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage Site – the selection criteria
The article deals with cultural values that represents the wooden church architecture. Author focuses on the examples of the church in the Polish and Ukrainian region of Carpathian mountains. The abundance of wood as a building material in the region, as
Piotr Gleń
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The Ruthenian Orthodox art in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the sixteenth century opened itself to the influences of Western European culture. The article is devoted to а description and analysis of this phenomenon. Although for most of the seventeenth century no work emerged that was pure enough in terms of its style that it could be termed а ...
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Volyn Orthodox Eparchy in 1938: chronicle of opposition to a revision campaign
The article outlines the main events in the life of Orthodox Volyn, when the main foreign threat was the action organized by the Polish authorities to convert to Catholicism.
Volodymyr Borshchevych
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Ukrainophile Activism and Imperial Governance in Russia's Southwestern Borderlands [PDF]
Explores the relationship between the Ukrainian nation-building process and the tsarist ...
Faith Hillis
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Brest Union - causes, consequences, historical destiny
The repeated celebrations of the jubilees of the Union of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church with the Roman Apostolic See encourage us to stop once more and deeper comprehend its genesis, that is, to find out the motives of its creators, historical and other ...
Ivan Shevtsiv
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Palamas and Florensky: The Metaphysics of the Heart in Patristic and Russian Philosophical Tradition [PDF]
Тhis paper focuses on the philosophical issue known as the metaphysics of the heart within Orthodox Christianity – both Russian and Byzantie versions. Russian religious thought is based on patristic tradition.
Kroczak, Justyna
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Der Metropolit Kiprian zwischen Vilnius und Moskau an der Wende vom 14. zum 15. Jahrhundert
Cyprian, an educated Hesychastic-oriented monk, was one of the most important representatives of the Orthodox church in medieval Eastern Europe.
Pavel Boček
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