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Political Parties and Religion in Post-Communist Poland

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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This book examines the role of religion and the Catholic Church in post-communist Polish politics. It outlines the special circumstances of Poland, a country with very high levels of religiosity, where the Catholic Church played a crucial role in the process that led to the collapse of communism in 1989.Based on extensive original research, the book highlights the great complexity in the relationship, with some parties actively associating themselves with the Church’s moral authority, while at the same time many Poles oppose key elements of the Church’s public policy agenda, and some parties mobilise politically around anticlericalism. By examining this important country case study, the work also contributes to the broader comparative-theoretical literature on parties and religion, enhancing our understanding of how parties in modern European democracies relate to religious groupings, particularly how they attempt to mobilise political and electoral support around the religious–secular divide. It thereby helps us to understand the role that religion has played in contemporary European party politics.As a definitive grounded empirical examination of the role of religion and politics in post-1989 Poland, this study will be of interest to scholars of Central and East European studies, Eastern European politics, religion and politics.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-11-28
Mått156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt580 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
Antal sidor218
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367456634

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Chapter 1 - IntroductionChapter 2 - A key political actor: The Catholic Church and politics in post-1989 PolandChapter 3 - Mobilising Catholicism politically: Explicitly pro-clerical right-wing partiesChapter 4 - Promoting Catholics values?: The Law and Justice partyChapter 5 - Flirting with Christian Democracy: Pro-Church right-wing and centrist partiesChapter 6 - Mobilising anti-clericalism: Anti-Church left-wing and liberal partiesChapter 7 - Conclusion

'Aleks Szczerbiak’s briskly and clearly argued book examines how political parties relate to the Roman Catholic Church and religiosity in Poland. It examines both the broader setting of the Catholic Church in this very religious country, and how political parties operated within this peculiar context, focusing on the right-wing parties whose values aligned with the Church’s.'Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University, USA'Szczerbiak differs...[from] all other scholars...in his writing the first English-language monograph dedicated to the issue of what he terms the supply side of party politics and religion in post-communist Poland...[He] does this through, among other matters, a thorough empirical study regarding in what manner did political parties in Poland utilize the religious issue with regards to relations with the institutional Church, and or through the religious-secular divide in order to mobilize a desired electorate.'Christopher Garbowski, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin'Szczerbiak's book is not only a thorough diagnosis of one of the phenomena of Polish politics, but also a successful attempt to depoliticize the language of the debate on this topic. It is undoubtedly a book that is required reading for anyone involved in – or even interested in – Polish politics. Without a religious context, understanding Polish politics, including party politics, is impossible.'Krzysztof Zuba, University of Opole, Poland (translated from Polish)