Polish Catholicism between Tradition and Migration: Agency, Reflexivity and Transcendence

ISBN-13: 9780367551872 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 196 str.

Wojciech Sadlon

Opis

This book examines the manner and the extent to which religion is shaped by modernity. Employing a critical realist perspective, it draws on the notion of reflexivity to consider the changes brought about in Polish Catholicism in the light of profound social and cultural shifts in the country’s recent history.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.