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Obraz wspólnoty katolickiej w polskim dyskursie religijnym

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The aim of the article is to analyse contemporary patriotic preaching. It proves that the ethnocentrism of the Church in Poland, has an ethnically based definition of sacrum, limiting one's view to the Polish national community. As a consequence 'we'in such discourse is an equivalent of 'we, the Polish people'. Christian (or generally: human, universal) attitude is not evident. In the first part of the article the main elements of religious discourse are presented: type of speaker (hierarchs of the Church - archbishops, bishops), occasions (national and religious celebrations), places (cathedral, basilica, Jasna Góra Monastery). In the second part of the article, its author analyses a sermon based on some typical strategies and on unifying a Catholic and a Pole, defining sacrum through the category of Polishness and national involvement. The conclusion aims at presenting perlocutive effects of such preaching.