The Catholic Church in Poland in the public and private sphere
Throughout centuries in theory and in practice of relations between the Church and the State there have developed two extreme tendencies: the subordination of the Church to the interests of the State and the subordination of the State to the Church, which entails two opposite types of states: secula...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Polish |
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Polskie Towarzyrtwo Religioznawcze
2016
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Przegla̜d religioznawczy
Year: 2016, Issue: 4/262, Pages: 83-100 |
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| Summary: | Throughout centuries in theory and in practice of relations between the Church and the State there have developed two extreme tendencies: the subordination of the Church to the interests of the State and the subordination of the State to the Church, which entails two opposite types of states: secular and confessional. The oldest model of relations between the state and the Church is the confessional state. In the confessional state the predominant religion constitutes the base and regulates the shape of the political system. In Poland the constitutional law, being the highest rank of civic agreement, guarantees the secularism of the state and neutrality with regard to outlooks on life as well as determines the competence and fields of activity of the Churches and other religious organisations. On the constitutional level, there is a predominance of solutions typical of a secular state. However, we can observe a polarisation of positions in social reception. From the conviction that the position of the Catholic Church is discriminated against, not as it is supposed to be in a country where the majority of citizens are Catholics, to the feeling of discrimination against non-Catholics. On the level of customary practice, there is a substantial consent and approval of the majority of the society for Church initiatives to solve social matters (providing aid) as well as its presence in the sphere of the symbolic culture. However, due to an emotional attitude towards the faith in God, people object to forcing through the Christian moral values and imposing them on the general public by Church hierarchs, alongside the legislative support of Members of Parliament of consecutive terms of office. |
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| ISSN: | 2658-1531 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Przegla̜d religioznawczy
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