Marian Pankowski and Religious Questions

This article deals with the issue of religion in the creative work of Marian Pankowski. The first aspect of religion in Pankowski is sociological and ceremonial in nature and relates to roadside shrines, pilgrimages, and the metaphoric Potatoland that is most aptly reflected in Matuga idzie. Przygody (Here Comes Matuga. Adventures) and Pątnicy z Macierzyzny (Pilgrims from Motherland). Its other aspect relates to the anthropological and philosophical dimension of religion, the location of sacrum in human existential life and experience. Both religious aspects come together in Ostatni zlot aniołów (The Last Convention of Angels), one of Pankowskiʼs most recent works.