Religion, Politics, and Values in Poland

INTRODUCTION The Strength of the Church - An Introduction: Sabrina P. Ramet
PART ONE - THE POLITICS OF RELIGION SINCE 1989 Chapter 1: Controversies in the social & political engagement of the Catholic Church in Poland since 1988 -- Sabrina P. Ramet Chapter 2: The Many Faces of John Paul II -- Stanislaw Obirek Chapter 3: The Roman Catholic Church In Poland vis-à-vis Europe and the Processes of European integration: Three images of Europe -- Katarzyna Leszczynska Chapter 4: Radio Maryja and Fr. Rydzyk as a creator of the National-Catholic ideology - Ireneusz Krzeminski Chapter 5: The war on gender? The Roman Catholic Church's discourse on gender in Poland - Anna Szwed and Katarzyna Zielinska Chapter 6: The Politics of Religious Education in Poland after 1989 - Marcin Zwier d ynski Chapter 7: Religious minorities in contemporary Poland -Zbigniew Pasek
PART TWO - VALUES AND ATTITUDES TODAY Chapter 8: Religion in Poland between tradition and modernity, or religious continuity and change in conditions of transformation - Irena Borowik Chapter 9: The Public Engagement of the Catholic Church in Polish Society - Janusz Marianski Chapter 10: Polish religious values as reflected in the European Values Study - Mira Marody and Slawomir Mandes Chapter 11: Religiosity, the Catholic Church, and Politics in Poland -- Miroslawa Grabowska Chapter 12: Visible Religion, Invisible Ethics - Wojciech Pawlik
Religion, politics and social attitudes in transforming Poland - a conclusion - Irena Borowik
Further readings About the editors and contributors

<div>Sabrina P. Ramet is Professor of Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), in Trondheim, Norway. Born in London, England, she earned her PhD in political science at University of California, Los Angeles, USA in 1981. She is the author of 12 scholarly books and editor or co-editor of 32 previous books, including Religion and Politics in Central and Southeastern Europe: Challenges since 1989 (2014).</div><div></div><div>Irena Borowik is Professor of Sociology in the Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University, Poland. She earned her PhD in sociology at the Jagiellonian University in 1988. She is the author, editor, or co-editor of numerous books, including Religion, Churches, and Religiosity in Post-Communist Europe (2006).</div><div></div>