Romuviečių pasaulėžiūrinės grupės genezė (1919-1923 m.) ; Genesis of Romuva adherent's world-view group (1919-1923)

Abstract

The genesis of one of the interwar Lithuanian Catholic society's world-view groups called Romuva adherents is analysed in the article. Three Lithuanian Catholic intellectuals, Stasys Salkauskis, Kazys Pakstas, Juozas Eretas, united into Romuva community which greatly influenced social, cultural and even political life of interwar Lithuanian Catholics. In the article, the factors which influenced the genesis of this world-view group are presented in the context of Western Europe's and Russia's intellectual and spiritual life. The sketches of ideology of Romuva adherents' world-view group are introduced. The genesis and ideology of the group are analysed by using the idea of public Catholicism as the one of two substantive (historically expressed) Catholic traditions.