THE SPIRIT OF TIME. CONTEMPORARY RELIGIOSITY AS SEEN BY DIFFERENT GENERATIONS (Duch czasu. Wspólczesna religijnosc postrzegana przez pryzmat pokolen)

This article is a monograph of the contemporary religiosity perceived through the prism of religious practices of various generations of the rural population in Cierpieta in the Kurpie region. The text is written on the basis of material collected by the authoress during the ethnographic fieldwork conducted in this village. The article describes a change of a religious traditions and practices. The authoress discusses the increasing role of priests and Church in the means of adopting new practices and making them popular among parishioners. The influence of globalization on perceiving religiosity and the spread of the phenomenon of so-called popular religiosity is being widely discussed as well.