Religious Life In Poland

Author : Christopher Garbowski
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476612455
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Life in Poland written by Christopher Garbowski and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a concise historical outline of religion in Poland up until its entry into the European Union in 2004, together with a longer presentation of contemporary religious issues. Albeit largely mono-ethnic and overwhelmingly Catholic after the loss of its large Jewish population to the Holocaust, and subsequent post-World War II border shifts, traces of an historic diversity remain in Poland to date, playing a greater role than mere numbers would suggest. Poland's fairly robust religious life is affected by the country's continuing modernization and its various institutions, and this is discussed within a broad context. One of the unfortunate legacies of decades of communism is a stunted civil society; while at different levels there are conflicts involving religion, at the grassroots it is one of the few forces building much needed trust in present-day Polish society.

Author : Jonathan Huener
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253054036
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Polish Catholic Church under German Occupation written by Jonathan Huener and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, it aimed to destroy Polish national consciousness. As a symbol of Polish national identity and the religious faith of approximately two-thirds of Poland's population, the Roman Catholic Church was an obvious target of the Nazi regime's policies of ethnic, racial, and cultural Germanization. Jonathan Huener reveals in The Polish Catholic Church under German Occupation that the persecution of the church was most severe in the Reichsgau Wartheland, a region of Poland annexed to Nazi Germany. Here Catholics witnessed the execution of priests, the incarceration of hundreds of clergymen and nuns in prisons and concentration camps, the closure of churches, the destruction and confiscation of church property, and countless restrictions on public expression of the Catholic faith. Huener also illustrates how some among the Nazi elite viewed this area as a testing ground for anti-church policies to be launched in the Reich after the successful completion of the war. Based on largely untapped sources from state and church archives, punctuated by vivid archival photographs, and marked by nuance and balance, The Polish Catholic Church under German Occupation exposes both the brutalities and the limitations of Nazi church policy. The first English-language investigation of German policy toward the Catholic Church in occupied Poland, this compelling story also offers insight into the varied ways in which Catholics—from Pope Pius XII, to members of the Polish episcopate, to the Polish laity at the parish level—responded to the Nazi regime's repressive measures.

Author : Brian Porter-Szucs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199875535
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith and Fatherland written by Brian Porter-Szucs and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus instructed his followers to "love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you" (Luke 6:27-28). Not only has this theme long been among the Church's most oft-repeated messages, but in everything from sermons to articles in the Catholic press, it has been consistently emphasized that the commandment extends to all humanity. Yet, on numerous occasions in the twentieth century, Catholics have established alliances with nationalist groups promoting ethnic exclusivity, anti-Semitism, and the use of any means necessary in an imagined "struggle for survival." While some might describe this as mere hypocrisy, Faith and Fatherland analyzes how Catholicism and nationalism have been blended together in Poland, from Nazi occupation and Communist rule to the election of Pope John Paul II and beyond. It is usually taken for granted that Poland is a Catholic nation, but in fact the country's apparent homogeneity is a relatively recent development, supported as much by ideology as demography. To fully contextualize the fusion between faith and fatherland, Brian Porter-cs-concepts like sin, the Church, the nation, and the Virgin Mary-ultimately showing how these ideas were assembled to create a powerful but hotly contested form of religious nationalism. By no means was this outcome inevitable, and it certainly did not constitute the only way of being Catholic in modern Poland. Nonetheless, the Church's ongoing struggle to find a place within an increasingly secular European modernity made this ideological formation possible and gave many Poles a vocabulary for social criticism that helped make sense of grievances and injustices.

Author : Christopher Garbowski
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786475897
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Life in Poland written by Christopher Garbowski and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a concise historical outline of religion in Poland up until its entry into the European Union in 2004, together with a longer presentation of contemporary religious issues. Albeit largely mono-ethnic and overwhelmingly Catholic after the loss of its large Jewish population to the Holocaust, and subsequent post-World War II border shifts, traces of an historic diversity remain in Poland to date, playing a greater role than mere numbers would suggest. Poland's fairly robust religious life is affected by the country's continuing modernization and its various institutions, and this is discussed within a broad context. One of the unfortunate legacies of decades of communism is a stunted civil society; while at different levels there are conflicts involving religion, at the grassroots it is one of the few forces building much needed trust in present-day Polish society.

Author : Poland. Polskie Rzadowe Centrum Informacyjne, New York
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book German Persecution of Religious Life in Poland written by Poland. Polskie Rzadowe Centrum Informacyjne, New York and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Polish Research and Information Service (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Life in Poland written by Polish Research and Information Service (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jerzy Walicki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Life in Poland written by Jerzy Walicki and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Piotr Stanisz
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
ISBN 13 : 9403529733
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Law in Poland written by Piotr Stanisz and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2020-12-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this convenient resource provides systematic information on how Poland deals with the role religion plays or can play in society, the legal status of religious communities and institutions, and the legal interaction among religion, culture, education, and media. After a general introduction describing the social and historical background, the book goes on to explain the legal framework in which religion is approached. Coverage proceeds from the principle of religious freedom through the rights and contractual obligations of religious communities; international, transnational, and regional law effects; and the legal parameters affecting the influence of religion in politics and public life. Also covered are legal positions on religion in such specific fields as church financing, labour and employment, and matrimonial and family law. A clear and comprehensive overview of relevant legislation and legal doctrine make the book an invaluable reference source and very useful guide. Succinct and practical, this book will prove to be of great value to practitioners in the myriad instances where a law-related religious interest arises in Poland. Academics and researchers will appreciate its value as a thorough but concise treatment of the legal aspects of diversity and multiculturalism in which religion plays such an important part.

Author : Shimon Huberband
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kiddush Hashem written by Shimon Huberband and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part diary, part autobiography, part eyewitness account, and part historical monograph, Rabbi Shimon Huberband's archives cover every aspect of ghetto life, including religious life, cultural activities and heroic self-sacrifice.

Author : Gershon David Hundert
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520238443
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century written by Gershon David Hundert and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-02-10 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation A history of Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the eighteenth century which argues that this largest Jewish community in the world at that time must be at the center of consideration of modernity in Jewish history.