U źródeł kultury religijnej (wokół astralistyki Andrzeja Niemojewskiego)

Abstract

The paper deals chiefly with a problem of the genesis of religion and religious culture according to the views of the outstanding Polish thinker on the turn of the 19th century. Andrzej Niemojewski. It presents as well the evolution and conditioning of Niemojewski’s studies of religion on the base of an analysis of his texts, both published and unedited. The author of the paper pays a special attention to the explanation of astral conceptions, especially in the interpretations of Scriptural texts, done by the author of „The Bible and the Stars”. She also tries to specify the essence of astral theory and presents a short survey of its history. Astral conceptions are presented in connexion with typical examples, which are to illustrate, at least partially, the opulent subject matter of investigation. In the final confrontations an attempt to define the astral genesis of religion in Niemojewski's work as well the mutual relations between astral conceptions in religion and astral culture of promitive societies has been made.