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In Search of Another Knowledge: Western Esotericism in Communist Poland

2020/37/B/HS2/00894

Keywords:

Western esotericism Polish culture Polish literature communist Poland ideas transfer dissemination of esoteric knowledge legitimation strategies

Descriptors:

  • HS2_002:
  • HS2_014:
  • HS1_016:

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

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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 (Y-m-d): 2021-04-01

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2027-03-31

Project duration:: 72 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Pending project

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (7)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (2)
  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 World War II, the Paranormal, and Literature in Communist Poland: Unpublished Short Stories by Władysław Smólski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 (rok: 2024, tom: 17, nr 4, strony: 365–382), Wydawca: Taylor & Francis/Routledge
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1080/17526272.2023.2292845 - link to the publication
  2. Tematyka paranormalna, cenzura i przemiany wartości w PRL
    Authors:
    Monika Bednarczuk
    Academic press:
    Annales UMCS. Sectio FF (rok: 2025, tom: 43,2, strony: 143-157), Wydawca: Wydawnictwo UMCS
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.17951/ff.2025.43.2.143-157 - link to the publication
  3. Western Esotericism and Parapsychology in Socialist Poland: Between Censorship and the Official Culture
    Authors:
    Bednarczuk, Monika
    Academic press:
    Zeitschrift für slavische Philologie (rok: 2024, tom: 80, nr 2, strony: 399-425), Wydawca: Carl Winter Verlag
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.5281/zenodo.14903375 - 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 (rok: 2024, tom: 23, strony: 208-221), Wydawca: Universidad de Granada
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.30827/meslav.23.28790 - link to the publication
  5. Miron Białoszewski, Lech Emfazy Stefański, and the Paranormal: Toward a History of a Peculiar Relationship
    Authors:
    Bednarczuk, Monika
    Academic press:
    Slavonica (rok: 2024, tom: 29, nr 1, strony: 46037), Wydawca: Taylor & Francis/Routledge
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1080/13617427.2024.2420153 - link to the publication
  6. Kulturtransfer und das Okkulte: Rezeption esoterischer Wissensbestände aus der BRD im sozialistischen Polen
    Authors:
    Monika Bednarczuk
    Academic press:
    Roczniki Humanistyczne (rok: 2025, tom: 73,5, strony: 177-194), Wydawca: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.18290/rh25735.10 - 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 (rok: 2025, tom: 39,2, strony: 46-70), Wydawca: Sage
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1177/09526951251342703 - link to the publication
  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 (rok: 2025, tom: red. M. Bednarczuk i Justyna Górny, strony: 217-238), Wydawca: 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 (rok: 2025, tom: Red. Dorota K. Rembiszewska i Ryszard Grzesik, strony: 23-30), Wydawca: Instytut Slawistyki PAN
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.5281/zenodo.16113705 - link to the publication

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