The article addresses the question of the entanglement of the novel In Desert and Wilderness in the colonial discourse concerning Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The author presents and analyses several extremely important motifs of imperial narratives reproduced by Henryk Sienkiewicz in his African novel. In addition, he argues for a new critical, commented edition that will allow pupils and students to look at the novel from the perspective of our “dream of colonialism”.

Digital technology offers new opportunities to foster decolonial action related to the creation of knowledge. However, the underlying artificial intelligence systems of this technology still bear the marks of a colonial past and are themselves calling for decolonisation. Only the balanced use of the knowledge of the Global South and the Global North will contribute to the creation of multiple knowledge. In this article, the author presents the issues of knowledge decolonisation and then points out the necessity to epistemically reveal the colonising elements present in artificial intelligence.

Sudanese-born Mahmud Muhammad Taha is a fascinating, unorthodox, yet marginal voice in the sociopolitical debate of the Muslim world. This text briefly outlines his biography, involvement, and a synthesis of the key elements of his thought presented in his most important work, The second message of Islam. His reflection on the condition of the Muslim ummah, embedded in a bold interpretation of the sacred sources, continues as part of his legacy, even after the demise of the movement he created.

The purpose of this article is an anthropological and phenomenological description of religious experience among members of the Catholic vangelistic Schönstatt
Movement, centered on the miraculous representation of Our Lady of Triflescence, which began its activity in 1914 on the initiative of Josef Kentenich, and which today develops on every continent by setting the task of joining religiosity with everyday life. The main religious practice of the Schönstatt Movementis to move chapels with copies of the miraculous picture from home to home. The text concerns the community of the Municipality of Suszec in Upper Silesia, where the author conducted field research, i.e. conversations with members of the Schönstatt Movement and participating observations in their parish. The reflection covers issues related to the mutual relations between the sacrum and the profanum and the way they are perceived by people associated with the Movement. In particular, attention is devoted to specific religious behavior resulting
from the sense of the presence of the sacred in a space more strongly associated with the profane, i.e. athome. The accounts of Schönstatt Movement members and their attitudes towards this form of religiosity are presented. The text refers to the theories popular in the anthropology of religion and religious studies, which enable the recognition of the phenomenon of the sacred and a description of its features.

Searching one’s own identity in a foreign culture is one of the indispensable elements of the modern world. The purpose of this paper is to characterize the way in which cinéma de banlieue portrays dominant problems faced by immigrants in everyday life in France. Methodologically, the article is based on the research tools proposed by Manon Grodner and centers around three domains of public discourse, such as democracy, society and laicity. In particular, the focus is on the antagonistic picture of men and women. The research covers the period from 1995, the official date of the beginning of this cinematic movement, to 2019, the year of the release of the film Banlieusards.

The aim of my article is to present and analyse ethnographic data on the transformation of the concept of family in contemporary Polish society. In order to understand this contemporaneity it is necessary to refer to the past. I will show the changes in the various stages of family life formation by outlining three phases of social development: pre-industrial, industrial and post-industrial. This procedure will contribute to the interpretation of the issue I am interested in concerning the influence of childhood experiences on the creation of the family in adult life. My conclusions may serve to create a new definition of the family, which will be open to the changes taking place in the understanding of the family in the 21st century.