Religion, church, national identity, and the solidarity movement in school history textbooks in Poland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21445158 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daria Hejwosz-Gromkowska (0000-0003-2144-9600, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, corresponding author), Dobrochna Hildebrandt-Wypych (0000-0002-2422-6405) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 212-224 |
| Publication date | 2024-04-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Religious Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-6200 • E-ISSN: 1740-7931 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01416200.2023.2278441 |
| OpenAlex | W4388539920 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 41 |
This paper analyses the Solidarity movement narratives, focusing on church representatives, religious issues, and symbols in the Polish history textbooks for upper secondary schools between 1991 and 2018. The analysed textbooks prove to reinforce Poland’s national and religious identities, with John Paul II and the priest Popiełuszko being the primary national heroes of the Solidarity movement. The Catholic Church is presented as a protector of national values during the Solidarity period. The study also reveals the gradual reduction and simplification of the textbooks’ content. This tendency is a trigger for the polarisation of the historical discourse, posing a weapon for secular policies to misuse the ideological and symbolic roles of the Church in reproducing the Pole-Catholic pattern in history textbooks
Aesthetics · Art · Identity (music) · Ideology · Literature · Movement (music) · Narrative · National history · National Identities · National identity · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies · Religious Education and Schools · Religious studies
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| Citations per year | 2 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |