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In Search of Another Knowledge: Western Esotericism in Communist Poland

2020/37/B/HS2/00894

Keywords

Descriptors

  • HS2_002: Teoria literatury, historia myśli literaturoznawczej, metody i kierunki badań literacko-kulturowych; antropologia literatury, komparatystyka i translatoryka literacko-kulturowa
  • HS2_014: Kulturoznawstwo (w tym: współczesne studia kulturowe i antropologiczno-kulturowe)
  • HS1_016: Inne zagadnienia pokrewne

Panel

HS2 – Culture and cultural production: literary theory and comparative literature, history of literature, linguistics, library science, cultural studies, arts, architecture

Host institution

Uniwersytet w Białymstoku, Wydział Filologiczny

Voivodeship: podlaskie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution)

dr hab. Monika Anna Bednarczuk

Number of co-investigators in the project: 4

Call

OPUS 19 – announced on 2020-03-16

Amount awarded
404 100 PLN
Project start date
2021-04-01
Project end date
2027-03-31
Project duration
72 months (the same as in the proposal)
Project status
Pending project

Project description

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Information in the final report

Publication in academic press/journals (7)

  1. World War II, the Paranormal, and Literature in Communist Poland: Unpublished Short Stories by Władysław Smólski

    Authors:
    Gardocki, Wiktor
    Academic press:
    Journal of War and Culture Studies (year: 2024, volume: 17, nr 4, pages: 365–382), Publisher: Taylor & Francis/Routledge
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1080/17526272.2023.2292845 – link to the publication

  2. Western Esotericism and Parapsychology in Socialist Poland: Between Censorship and the Official Culture

    Authors:
    Bednarczuk, Monika
    Academic press:
    Zeitschrift für slavische Philologie (year: 2024, volume: 80, nr 2, pages: 399-425), Publisher: Carl Winter Verlag
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.5281/zenodo.14903375 – link to the publication

  3. Kulturtransfer und das Okkulte: Rezeption esoterischer Wissensbestände aus der BRD im sozialistischen Polen

    Authors:
    Monika Bednarczuk
    Academic press:
    Roczniki Humanistyczne (year: 2025, volume: 73,5, pages: 177-194), Publisher: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.18290/rh25735.10 – link to the publication

  4. Reading 'The Memoir of a Clairvoyant' (1976): Divination, Censorship, and the Past in Late Socialist Poland.

    Authors:
    Gardocki, Wiktor
    Academic press:
    Mundo Eslavo (year: 2024, volume: 23, pages: 208-221), Publisher: Universidad de Granada
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.30827/meslav.23.28790 – link to the publication

  5. Tematyka paranormalna, cenzura i przemiany wartości w PRL

    Authors:
    Monika Bednarczuk
    Academic press:
    Annales UMCS. Sectio FF (year: 2025, volume: 43,2, pages: 143-157), Publisher: Wydawnictwo UMCS
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.17951/ff.2025.43.2.143-157 – link to the publication

  6. Miron Białoszewski, Lech Emfazy Stefański, and the Paranormal: Toward a History of a Peculiar Relationship

    Authors:
    Bednarczuk, Monika
    Academic press:
    Slavonica (year: 2024, volume: 29, nr 1, pages: 46037), Publisher: Taylor & Francis/Routledge
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1080/13617427.2024.2420153 – link to the publication

  7. Health care, esoteric practices, and socialist governmentality in Socialist Poland

    Authors:
    Monika Bednarczuk
    Academic press:
    History of the Human Sciences (year: 2025, volume: 39,2, pages: 46-70), Publisher: Sage
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1177/09526951251342703 – link to the publication

Book publications / chapters in book publications (2)

  1. Für mehr Selbstliebe und allgemeine Freundlichkeit. Emotionen und esoterische Praktiken im spätkommunistischen Polen am Beispiel der Akademia Życia

    Authors:
    Monika Bednarczuk
    Book:
    Emotionen und affektive Praktiken zwischen Literatur und Alltagserfahrung (year: 2025, volume: red. M. Bednarczuk i Justyna Górny, pages: 217-238), Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.5281/zenodo.17980614 – link to the publication

  2. Esotericism in Socialist Poland as a Confluence of Traditions from the East, the West, and the Global South

    Authors:
    Monika Bednarczuk
    Book:
    Literaturoznawstwo i kulturoznawstwo: Prace na XVII (ekstraordynaryjny) Międzynarodowy Kongres Slawistów w Paryżu w roku 2025 (year: 2025, volume: Red. Dorota K. Rembiszewska i Ryszard Grzesik, pages: 23-30), Publisher: Instytut Slawistyki PAN
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.5281/zenodo.16113705 – link to the publication

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