Overview
- Provides the first history of the Church in Poland from a political perspective
- Reflects research in Polish-, German-, and English-language materials
- Offers a detailed examination of the Church’s experiences in each of the three partition zones (Prussian/German, Russian, and Austrian) in the years 1772-1918
- Includes a detailed account of the Church’s fortunes in the interwar years, 1918-1939, noting divisions within the ranks of the episcopate and the persistence of anti-Semitism in the Church
- Brings the story up to date, with detailed analyses of both the communist and post-communist eras in the life of the Church in Poland.
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy (PSRPP)
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“Ramet correctly emphasizes three main themes in the book. The first of these is the fact that the Roman Catholic Church historically prioritized its own institutional well-being over that of the nation or state. Second, the Church ended up propagating a heroic (and only partially accurate) narrative of the Church's role in the Polish past, a narrative of religious resistance in the fact of oppression—this even when the majorityof clergy served as examples of accommodation and/or collaboration with the powers-that-be. Third, Ramet hones in on the connection between the Church and nation, which she sees as only ‘forged in the era of the partitions...the overall argument of a politicized Catholic Church that all too often saw itself as being under siege, even when it was not, is sound.’” (Patrice M. Dabrowski, Nationalities Papers)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Sabrina Petra Ramet is a Professor of Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), in Trondheim, Norway, and author of 12 previous books, among them: Nihil Obstat: Religion, Politics, and Social Change in East-Central Europe and Russia (Duke University Press, 1998) and The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building and Legitimation, 1918—2005 (Indiana University Press & The Wilson Center Press, 2006). She is also editor or co-editor of 34 books published to date.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Catholic Church in Polish History
Book Subtitle: From 966 to the Present
Authors: Sabrina P. Ramet
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-40281-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-42622-2Published: 23 June 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-40281-3Published: 22 June 2017
Series ISSN: 2731-6769
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6777
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 300
Number of Illustrations: 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Politics, Politics and Religion, Political Theory, History of Germany and Central Europe, Catholicism