Rome's Most Faithful Daughter. The Catholic Church and Independent Poland, 1914-1939
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5707460 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zdzislaw Mach (Jagiellonian University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 743-745 |
| Publication date | 2010-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Church and State (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-969X • E-ISSN: 2040-4867 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jcs/csq126 |
| OpenAlex | W1984894283 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Much has been written about the role of the Roman Catholic Church in Polish history and the importance of Catholicism for Polish national culture and identity. One of the few things that the international public knows about Poland is that it is a religious country, dominated by Catholicism of a rather traditional variety. Yet this knowledge is rather superficial and highly mythologized. In Poland, the role of the Catholic Church, especially before communism, tends to be seen in a simplified way, dominated by the concept of a monolithic Polish Catholic nation. It is, therefore, very important that a serious, competent academic study of relations between the Polish state and the Catholic Church should be written. Neal Pease's book fills this gap admirably. It is an excellent piece of scholarship, essentially historical but with much sensitivity for political and social issues. The author gives us a thorough, beautifully written and clearly structured presentation of Polish independence after the end of the partitions and before the outbreak of World War II. The book is chronological. Particular chapters reconstruct the sequence of events and try to find logic in the development of relations between state and church, while also focusing on key factors and crucial events that determined these relations and also constituted essential moments of the Polish inter-war social and political history.
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| Citations per year | 0.31 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2017 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |