Bogacka, Katarzyna (Redakcja Wydawnictw Wydziału Teologicznego Uniwersytetu Opolskiego, 2023)
Insignias of the ecclesiastical authority are a category of objects that in many respects stand out from other artefacts. Their impact on the viewer is (at least potentially) multi-layered, and the social functions performed by individual insignia, as previous research has shown, may vary significantly. This article attempts to answer the question about the appropriateness of drawing on the methodology used in social science, not only the humanities and liturgics, in research on insignias. The argument put forward is that these objects have been undergoing formal and semantic transformations in the last two centuries, thereby highlighting their social function, which can be demonstrated by research taking into account problems in the field of communication sciences, as well as the psychology and sociology of art.
