Lucyna Przybylska- Professor
- Professor at University of Gdańsk
Lucyna Przybylska
- Professor
- Professor at University of Gdańsk
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Introduction
I am a geographer of religion. My interests concentrate on contemporary forms of sacralisation of public space. The book “Sakralizacja przestrzeni publicznych w Polsce (in English: Sacralisation of public spaces in Poland”) has been issued in 2014.
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September 2007 - present
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The purpose of the paper is to identify, describe and interpret the proliferation of crosses in post-communist Poland (1989–2022). It is argued that the cross had been present before the Great Transformation of 1989, yet to a lesser degree. The proliferation of crosses has been analysed using a mapping sentence, which is a definitional scheme, not...
The aim of the paper is to present a model of the principal driving forces responsible for the proliferation of roadside memorials in Poland. Based on desk research, fieldwork and interviews, a three dimensional model has been developed. There are three dimensions of roadside memorials: 1) global, 2) societal, and 3) individual. Each of the dimensi...
The aim of the monograph „Memorial crosses along roads in Poland” is to indicate the origin, structure, function, and the meaning of erecting roadside memorials along public roads in Poland. The reasons for raising the question of memorial crosses are the following: firstly – filling in the cognitive gap in the Polish literature on the subject, sec...
The purpose of this article is to define the function of the Fishermen’s Sea Pilgrimage organised in northern Poland. It is the only boat pilgrimage on the Baltic Sea. One of the authors took part in nearly all the pilgrimages in the years 2004–2022. The authors describe the origins and form of sea pilgrimage against contemporary general trends in...
Roadside memorials are made up of objects, usually flowers, candles and crosses, placed at the roadside to mark the sites of fatal accidents. The paper introduces the potential of Lefebvre’s concept of rhythmanalysis and geography of rhythms in exploring roadside memorials. The aim of the paper is to investigate rituals and rhythms at roadside memo...
The paper contributes to the discourse on roadside memorialisation in the countries of Christian heritage in Europe, Australia, and North America. The aim of the paper is to assess the social perception of the motivation of people constructing roadside crosses at the places of fatal car accidents along public roads in Poland. Is it religious, cultu...
The paper fills in a gap in the literature on roadside memorials in Poland. The aims of this article are to find a typical form of a roadside memorial in the Gdańsk agglomeration (northern Poland) and to explore the role (function and meaning) of roadside memorials. They were achieved with the help of field studies and a survey conducted in 2017. T...
The issues raised in this study concern the contemporary specifics of the Polish territory as well as the historical context, especially legal provisions, economic changes and the political transformation which took place after the Second World War. All these issues are illustrated by numerous local examples from the Gdańsk agglomeration and the Po...
This paper focuses exclusively on inscriptions on roadside memorials. We conducted a review of studies of roadside memorial inscriptions and a field study of 29 inscriptions found on 156 roadside memorials in Poland to understand the similarities and differences between these inscriptions and those in other countries. The uniqueness of Polish inscr...
In Poland, the majority of roadside memorials erected at the site of fatal accidents are anonymous. The purpose of this article is to explain the reasons for their anonymity. It was assumed that a roadside memorial is anonymous when it is not marked in any way with letters identifying the person who it is devoted to or who erected it (e.g. names or...
The article discusses flags in respect of their different forms (kind or type of occurrence) and functions served (role and meaning). The author raised the following research questions about the current use of flags in the city: when, what flags and why they are flown along the city streets? The following thesis was put forward that flags hung by G...
W lutym 2016 roku przeprowadzono wśród uczniów klas pierwszych I Akademickiego Liceum Ogólnokształcącym im. Zasłużonych Ludzi Morza w Gdyni ankietę pt. „Gdynia w oczach młodzieży licealnej”. Zebrano 129 wypełnionych ankiet. Młodzi ludzie lubią miasto, w którym mieszkają i uczą się. Dla badanej młodzieży Gdynia jest miastem nadmorskim, nowoczesnym i...
W pierwszej części artykułu, w oparciu o studia literatury przedmiotu
omówiono zarys historii i funkcji flag na przestrzeni wieków. Druga część artykułu powstała na podstawie danych otrzymanych z Urzędu Miasta Gdyni oraz na podstawie pół-ustrukturyzowanych wywiadów przeprowadzonych w okresie lipiec-wrzesień 2015 roku z dwoma urzędnikami zajmującym...
Celem opracowania jest analiza czynników prawnych, urbanistycznych, architektonicznych, przyrodniczych, ekonomicznych i społecznych, które mają wpływ zarówno na kształt przestrzeni, jak i na możliwości oraz sposoby zarządzania nią w taki sposób, by tworzyła dobre środowisko życia dla zamieszkującej ją społeczności. Ideą opracowania było ujęcie inte...
Christmas and Easter in the public space. The example of shop windows in Świętojańska Street in Gdynia The aim of the article was to find an answer to the question about the presence of the religious aspect of Christmas and Easter in the public space. The field studies carried out in December 2015 and March 2016 showed a small share of Christmas an...
Landscape sacralisation is the process of filling the cultural landscape with religious phenomena and giving it a sacred character with elements of ritualised devotion. This paper examines this process in Poland during and since the communist era (1945–1989), and with a particular emphasis on late communist and post-communist times (1980–2013). It...
Zarys działalności franciszkanów konwentualnych w Gdyni został ukazany jako splot dziejów wspólnoty zakonnej i wspólnoty parafialnej, Kościoła i miasta - uwarunkowanych specyfiką poszczególnych okresów politycznych w kraju. Spoiwem tych dziejów jest kompleks klasztoru i kościoła św. Antoniego z Padwy.
Problematyka artykułu wpisuje się w stosunkowo nowy w literaturze polskiej nurt badań i refleksji nad metodą tutoringu i jej przydatnością na rożnych szczeblach edukacji oraz w studia nad jakością kształcenia akademickiego na kierunku geografia. Celem artykułu jest identyfikacja motywów 1) zaangażowania się i 2) braku zaangażowania się w tutoring,...
This paper focuses on the emerging phenomenon of spontaneous memorialisation at the sites of motor vehicle accidents in recent years in Poland. As in many parts of the world, the locations of the accidents are marked by flowers, candles, religious symbols, photos and even professional gravestones. In 2009-2013, field research was conducted along 27...
The aim of the paper is to show spatial regularity of roadside memorialisation as well as public opinions on the phenomenon in Poland. Field studies covering 623 kilometres of public roads showed that among 100 roadside memorials the majority (98%) are memorial crosses A correlation between the distribution of roadside memorials and the road catego...
The aim of this paper is to identify, categorize, explain and interpret the process of „John-Paul-the-Second-ization” which has been taking place for the last three decades in Poland. „John-Paul-the-Second-ization” is perceived as a kind of landscape sacralization, i.e. the process of filling the cultural landscape with objects and phenomena relate...
This study follows author`s interest in urban religious naming of streets in various parts of Poland. First, this theoretical concept of functions of a street is explained, followed by an outline of history of streets and urban naming. Then there is a description of all Polish streets (19) under patronage of St. James. The aim of the paper is to pr...
Celem artykułu jest identyfikacja motywów zaangażowania pracowników i studentów wspomnianego Wydziału w nową ofertę dydaktyczną jaką jest tutoring. Na początku badań postawiono następujące pytanie: Co motywuje nauczycieli i studentów do podjęcia pracy metodą tutoringu? Z zebranych danych wyłoniła się dodatkowo opinia na temat samej metody tutoringu...
The purpose of the paper is the identification and interpretation of the dynamically developing contemporary mass event called the Cavalcade of the Three Kings (Orszak Trzech Króli). It was organised for the first time in 2009 in Warsaw. On the 6th of January 2014, about 630,000 inhabitants of 177 towns and villages, singing Christmas carols and we...
The aim of the paper is to identify student's and teacher's motives of involvement in tutoring- A new educational offer in the academic year 2014/2015 at the Faculty of Oceanography and Geography of the University of Gdañsk. First, the theoretical concept of tutoring is presented, followed by the description of the process of implementation of the...
Celem monografii jest próba wyjaśnienia procesu sakralizacji przestrzeni publicznych Polski zachodzącego w ostatnich trzech dekadach. Przyjęto, że sakralizacja przestrzeni publicznych jest to wypełnianie owych przestrzeni obiektami i zjawiskami związanymi z religią. Ponadto przedstawiono procesy towarzyszące koegzystencji sfer sacrum i profanum we...
The purpose of the paper is the identification and description of factors affecting the process of sacralisation as well as the implementation of theoretical concepts in a case study of the Baltic city of Gdynia. The time range of the research is limited to the postwar period (1945–2013). It has been assumed that the formation of any religious land...
Celem artykułu jest zwrócenie uwagi na krzyże, stawiane jak dawniej przy drogach, ale które wiążą się wyłącznie ze smutnymi wydarzeniami i wyrażają cierpienie po stracie w wypadku drogo-wym ukochanych osób. W pierwszej części omówiono wybrane prace autorów ukazujących nie tylko samo zjawisko w Szwecji, Włoszech, Stanach Zjednoczonych i Polsce, ale...
In October of 2009, the total length of the modern Polish Ways of St. James added up to 2,016 km (13 different sections). The main objective of this paper is to assess the pilgrimage turnout of Poles from a historical perspective as well as to show the current state of the phenomenon of recreating pilgrimage routes within the framework of the old C...
The Influence of Politics on the Erection and Development of Churches, Religious order Communities and Religious Names Given to Public Space in Poland. Case study Gdynia . The article is to illustrate, on the example of a city in northern Poland, the impact of politics on the erection and development of churches, religious orders and religious name...
W monografii scharakteryzowano elementy przestrzeni sakralnej Gdyni w ujęciu przestrzennym, wyjaśnieniono czynniki wpływające na kształtowanie krajobrazu sakralnego Gdyni po 1945 roku (większość danych dotyczy 2006 roku). Scharakteryzowano kościoły parafialne oraz zakony i zgromadzenia zakonne Kościoła rzymskokatolickiego oraz inne wspólnoty religi...
