Edward Bulanda

Edward Bulanda (born October 6, 1902 in Cracow, died on September 11, 1992 in Warsaw) - Jesuit, ethnologist, religious scholar. Curriculum vitae

In 1917 he joined the Jesuit order, from 1923 he studied philosophy in Nowy Sącz, then theology in Lublin, in 1930 he was ordained priest. Then, at the Faculty of Theology of the University of John Casimir in Lviv, he defended his doctorate in theology, then he studied dogmatic theology in Lublin, as well as ethnology, prehistory and the history of religion. During the occupation, in 1941 he became the superiorem and master of the novitiate in Otwock, and after the war in 1945 he was the deputy professor of religious history at the Catholic University of Lublin, 1946-1947, he traveled to Italy and Switzerland. In the years 1947-1950 he was a professor of comparative theology at the Catholic University of Lublin. On January 23, 1950, he was arrested, on March 13, 1951, sentenced to five years in prison on suspicion of illegal currency trading, on 27 October 1951 conditionally released on health grounds, later he worked as a professor of religious history in Lublin. He wrote works in the field of religion and cultural history - Mother Goddess in pagan religions and the honor of the Mother of God in Christianity (1954), Missionary dialogue of the Church with non-Christian religions (1958), Genesis and the significance of myth in the history of culture (1959), The concept of religion, its genesis and development (1962). Bibliography

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