Faith and its celebration in the culture. The Systematization of terms

Abstract

The study is not to explain two key concepts contained in the title, they are “faith” and “culture”, but to bring nearer and systematize the basic concepts related to the processes taking place – in the past and present – “at the crossroads” of culture and celebration of faith (which is primarily the liturgy, although of course not only liturgy). In everyday language, but sometimes also in scientific studies and even in the documents of the Church, discussing the relationship of faith to culture, almost exclusively uses the term “inculturation”. Meanwhile, the “inculturation” is an ambiguous term and it seems to be a mistake to use only this term for many processes connected with inculturation and adaptation, such as enculturation, acculturation, accommodation, indigenization, contextualization, or transculturation.