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A systematic analysis of Church and State relations in communist Poland.
Author : Ronald C. Monticone
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 27,25 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN :
A systematic analysis of Church and State relations in communist Poland.
Author : Bozena M. Vicary
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 13,23 MB
Release : 1985
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Kazimiera Jaworska
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,98 MB
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 364757337X
Post-war Lower Silesia was intended by the communists to be a "laboratory of socialism". Hence, they developed and pursued a special policy towards the Catholic Church. The book highlights the specificity of the pastoral ministry provided by the successive rulers of the Church in Wrocław (Karol Milik, Kazimierz Lagosz, Cardinal Bolesław Kominek) in the realities of the communist state. It shows the role of Cardinal Kominek who was persecuted for his attitude towards communists, his activity in the Polish Episcopate and in the forum of the universal Church. Moreover, it presents the system of repression aimed at diocesan clergy and religious orders and limiting theological education. With the objective of secularising the Lower Silesian society, the communists put emphasis on promoting their ideology, especially among the young generation. The Church responded with speeches by hierarchs condemning these activities and with pastoral initiatives to slow down the process.
Author : Sabrina P. Ramet
Publisher : Springer
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 13,91 MB
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137402814
The book chronicles the evolution of the church's political power throughout Poland's unique history. Beginning in the tenth century, the study first details how Catholicism overcame early challenges in Poland, from converting the early polytheists to pushing back the Protestant Reformation half a millennium later. It continues into the dawn of the modern age—including the division of Poland between Prussia, Russia, and Austria between 1772 and 1795, the interwar years, the National Socialist occupation of World War Two, and the communist and post-war communist eras—during which The Church only half-correctly presented itself as a steadfast protector of Poles, with clergy members who either stood up to foreign authorities or collaborated with those same Nazi and Communist leaders. This study ends with a consideration of how the Church has taken advantage of the fall of communism to push its own social agenda, at times against the wishes of most Poles.
Author : Jonathan Huener
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 34,61 MB
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0253054060
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 : Marian S. Mazgaj
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 10,32 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0786460105
This text explores the nature of Polish Catholicism in the first half of the twentieth century and the changes it underwent under the policies of Soviet Communism. Of particular note are the laws and policies that were employed by the state in order to destroy religion in general, and Catholicism in particular. The text also explores the way that the strong tradition of Polish culture prepared the populace to be uniquely resistant to attempts to destroy its Christian religious life. It is ultimately, a story of the triumph of the people over the state.
Author : Peter C. Kent
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 17,57 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773523265
The first detailed study of the international role of the papacy and the Roman Catholic Church in the shaping of post-1945 Europe and the origins of the Cold War.
Author : Sabrina P. Ramet
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,56 MB
Release : 2017-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137426222
The book chronicles the evolution of the church's political power throughout Poland's unique history. Beginning in the tenth century, the study first details how Catholicism overcame early challenges in Poland, from converting the early polytheists to pushing back the Protestant Reformation half a millennium later. It continues into the dawn of the modern age—including the division of Poland between Prussia, Russia, and Austria between 1772 and 1795, the interwar years, the National Socialist occupation of World War Two, and the communist and post-war communist eras—during which The Church only half-correctly presented itself as a steadfast protector of Poles, with clergy members who either stood up to foreign authorities or collaborated with those same Nazi and Communist leaders. This study ends with a consideration of how the Church has taken advantage of the fall of communism to push its own social agenda, at times against the wishes of most Poles.
Author : Ronald E. Modras
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 43,31 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Antisemitism
ISBN : 9058231291
This book examines how, following Vatican policy, Polish church leaders resisted separation of church and state in the name of Catholic culture. In that struggle, every assimilated Jew served as both a symbol and a potential agent of security.
Author : Piotr Wróbel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 10,61 MB
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1135927014
Located between the former Soviet Union and eastern Germany, Poland has the potential to become a political and economic bridge between the East and West. It is crucial to European security and stabilization; yet the list of reference books on recent Polish history is very short. This book fills that gap, providing information on Polish political, economic, and cultural history since 1945.