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CROATIAN POPULAR SERMONS OF 18TH CENTURY. A FORM OF POPULARIZATION OF WEST-CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY MEANT FOR A WIDE RANGE OF CROATIAN FOLK (EXTENDED BAROQUE)
Divna Zečević
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Croatian literature of 18th century is characterized by a pluralism of themes, styles and literary genres, in one word the presence of baroque is manifested as well as rationalism, romanticism, rococo, sentimentalism, latinism as neoclassicism.
The main way of spreading the religious teaching in sermons of 18th century is the way of intimidation through relating the examples or by directly menacing on penalty of infernal suffering. The antique myth also appears as the function of the Christian teaching. Intimidation is the way of interpreting the notion of »God’s fear«.
The paper is focused on an analysis of naturalistic descriptions of punishing the corporeity, especially in the Croatian sermons of Bernard Zuzorid (1683 - 1762), Besjede duhovne, Dubrovnik 1793.
In sermons the human body is described as a stinking-sack or a miniature hell. Two kinds of corporeity are opposed: the one of the sinner and the other of the saints. Centennial care of preachers is directed to the man’s lecherous thoughts and deeds; they bring also drastic words of advice of how to get rid of lecherous thoughts, e.g. opening up the grave (frequent advice and frequent practice)
and smelling the decayed parts of the corpse which, when alive, was attractive
and appealing lechery.
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Hrčak ID:
214562
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Datum izdavanja:
1.5.1993.
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