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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255279903321

Autore

Ramet Sabrina P

Titolo

The Catholic Church in Polish History : From 966 to the Present / / by Sabrina P. Ramet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

9781137402813

1137402814

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXIX, 300 p. 7 illus. in color.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy, , 2731-6777

Disciplina

320.94

Soggetti

Europe - Politics and government

Religion and politics

Political science

Europe, Central - History

Catholic Church

European Politics

Politics and Religion

Political Theory

History of Germany and Central Europe

Catholicism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

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.