Lietuvių Katalikų Mokslo Akademijos Metraštis IX
Akad. dr. Antanas Tyla (Lietuvos istorijos institutas); Akad. prof. Bronius Grigelionis (Matematikos ir kibernetikos institutas); Akad. prof. Giedrius Uždavinys (Vilniaus universitetas); Dr. Antanė Kučinskaitė (atsak. redaktorė, Lietuvių katalikų mokslo akademija); Dr. kun. Jonas Boruta SJ (Lietuvių katalikų mokslo akademija); Dr. Rimantas Sližys (Vilniaus universitetas); Dr. Tomas Sodeika (Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas)
1995
Introduction
This is the ninth volume of the annual scholarly yearbook of the Lithuanian Catholic Academy of Sciences (Lietuvių Katalikų Mokslo Akademija), published in Vilnius in 1995 in the early years of restored Lithuanian independence. The volume brings together research by Lithuanian scholars both at home and in the diaspora, covering Catholic intellectual history, the experience of Soviet-era religious persecution, Lithuanian communities abroad (Uruguay, Baltimore), and the revival of Catholic life in the Kaliningrad region. It documents a pivotal moment of post-Soviet scholarly and ecclesiastical renewal, bridging émigré and homeland Catholic intellectual traditions.
Community and publication context
Community and publication setting
Context and significance
Significance
The Lietuvių Katalikų Mokslo Akademijos Metraštis represents one of the most important scholarly serial publications sustaining Lithuanian Catholic intellectual life across the Soviet period and into the post-independence era. Founded in the interwar period and continuing through exile and diaspora channels, LKMA's yearbook embodies the institutional resilience of Lithuanian Catholic scholarship under conditions of displacement and suppression. Volume IX, appearing in 1995, is particularly significant as a document of post-Soviet reintegration: it deliberately brings diaspora scholarship (on Lithuanian communities in Uruguay and the United States) into dialogue with research produced in restored-independence Lithuania, while also addressing the living pastoral challenges of the Kaliningrad region and the historical memory of Soviet religious persecution (1972–1989).
The volume's breadth—encompassing a papal visit address, Jesuit scholarship on faith and science, social Catholic thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, diaspora community history, hagiographic biography of Archbishop Mečislovas Reinys, and the revival of Catholic structures in formerly Lithuanian Prussian territory—reflects the ambition of LKMA to function as a comprehensive archive of Lithuanian Catholic civilization. Its presence in a Detroit Lithuanian heritage school archive further illustrates the transatlantic networks through which Lithuanian Catholic institutional culture survived and now converges in the post-independence moment.
How this record carried memory
Institutional scholarly publication sustaining Catholic intellectual life and historical memory across the homeland/diaspora divide after Soviet occupation; explicitly incorporates diaspora scholars' work alongside Vilnius-based academics.
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