1st Edition
Polish Catholicism between Tradition and Migration Agency, Reflexivity and Transcendence
By Wojciech Sadlon
Copyright 2021
212 Pages
23 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
212 Pages
23 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
212 Pages
23 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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From a critical realist perspective, this book examines the manner and the extent to which religion is shaped by modernity. With a focus on Poland, one of the most monolithic and religiously active Catholic societies in the world – but which has undergone periods of intense transformation in its recent history – the author explores the transformations that have affected Catholicism from a... Read more
Foreword by Margaret Scotford Archer
Introduction
PART 1: Theoretical
1. Religion – between subjectivity and structure
2. Religious identity from the perspective of critical realism
PART 2: Empirical
3. Traditional Polish religiosity
4. Modern Polish society and religious identity
5. Migration and the shaping of religious identity
Epilogue
Biography
Wojciech Sadlon is Director of the Institute for Catholic Church Statistics, Poland, and Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Humanities, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw.
