Religion, politics, and values in Poland : community and change since 1989
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Religion, politics, and values in Poland : community and change since 1989
（Palgrave studies in religion, politics, and policy / series editors, Ted G. Jelen and Mark J. Rozell）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2017
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This volume brings together leading scholars to examine how the Church has brought its values into the political sphere and, in the process, alienated some of the younger generation. Since the disintegration of the communist one-party state at the end of the 1980s, the Catholic Church has pushed its agenda to ban abortion, introduce religious instruction in the state schools, and protect Poland from secular influences emanating from the European Union. As one of the consequences, Polish society has become polarized along religious lines, with conservative forces such as Fr. Rydzyk's Radio Maryja seeking to counter the influence of the European Union and liberals on the left trying to protect secular values. This volume casts a wide net in topics, with chapters on Pope John Paul II, Radio Maryja, religious education, the Church's campaign against what it calls "genderism," and the privatization of religious belief, among other topics.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTIONThe Strength of the Church - An Introduction: Sabrina P. Ramet
PART ONE - THE POLITICS OF RELIGION SINCE 1989Chapter 1: Controversies in the social & political engagement of the Catholic Church in Poland since 1988 -- Sabrina P. Ramet Chapter 2: The Many Faces of John Paul II -- Stanislaw Obirek Chapter 3: The Roman Catholic Church In Poland vis-a-vis Europe and the Processes of European integration: Three images of Europe -- Katarzyna LeszczynskaChapter 4: Radio Maryja and Fr. Rydzyk as a creator of the National-Catholic ideology - Ireneusz KrzeminskiChapter 5: The war on gender? The Roman Catholic Church's discourse on gender in Poland - Anna Szwed and Katarzyna Zielinska Chapter 6: The Politics of Religious Education in Poland after 1989 - Marcin ZwierzdzynskiChapter 7: Religious minorities in contemporary Poland -Zbigniew Pasek
PART TWO - VALUES AND ATTITUDES TODAYChapter 8: Religion in Poland between tradition and modernity, or religious continuity and change in conditions of transformation - Irena Borowik Chapter 9: The Public Engagement of the Catholic Church in Polish Society - Janusz Marianski Chapter 10: Polish religious values as reflected in the European Values Study - Mira Marody and Slawomir Mandes Chapter 11: Religiosity, the Catholic Church, and Politics in Poland -- Miroslawa Grabowska Chapter 12: Visible Religion, Invisible Ethics - Wojciech Pawlik
Religion, politics and social attitudes in transforming Poland - a conclusion - Irena Borowik
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