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Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,<br>
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ich darf Sie auf den neuesten Band Nummer 12 in der von Andrzej
Kątny und mir herausgegebenen Reihe "<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.peterlang.com/view/serial/SKEM">Sprach- und
Kulturkontakte in Europas Mitte (SKEM)</a>" aufmerksam machen:<br>
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<font size="+1" color="#1f497d"><b>Ewa Golachowska: <i>Conversations
with God. Multilingualism among the Catholics in Belarus in
the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries.
Sociolinguistic study</i> (= Sprach- und Kulturkontakte in
Europas Mitte. Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford,
Warszawa, Wien, 2020. 244 pp., 11 fig. b/w, 6 tables. Hardcover,
geb. ISBN 978-3-631-80201-4</b></font><br>
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<b>About the book:</b><br>
The book discusses the sociolinguistic status and prestige of the
Polish language and the changes in the national identity of
Catholics in Belarus due to the switch from Polish to Belarusian in
the Catholic Church. The research shows that the national
identification of Catholics in Belarus is changing. The oldest
generations most often self-identify as Polish. For those from the
middle and youngest generations, the link between nationality and
their religion is not obvious as being a Catholic does not exclude a
Belarusian self-identity. Belonging to the Catholic Church results
from being baptized in the Catholic rite, while national identity
can be defined in many ways and re-defined by various life
experiences. Catholicism has proven to be a less debated and more
durable category than nationality.<br>
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<b>Contents:</b><br>
Linguistic problems of the Catholic Church in Belarus in the
twentieth century in secondary sources – Functioning of Polish in
Catholic Communities in Belarus – Symbolic importance of Belarusian
– Multilingualism in the sacred sphere – Languages in the sacred
sphere and their communicative function – Changes since the Second
Vatican Council – Polish and Belarusian in the practice of the
Catholic Church in Belarus in the twenty-first century – Language of
catechesis – Language of sermons – Language of the liturgy –
Language of prayer – National identity of Catholics in Belarus at
the beginning of the twenty-first century<br>
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<b>About the author:</b><br>
Dr hab. Ewa Golachowska, prof. IS PAN is a linguist and Professor at
the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences. Her
research interests include sociolinguistics and the relations among
religion, languages and identity. She is the author of numerous
sociolinguistic articles.<br>
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