Localising Secularisation Thesis? The View from Poland

Authors

  • Katarzyna Zielińska Jagiellonian University

Abstract

Abstract: Secularization paradigm for a long time has been a dominant frame of reference for understating the place and function of religion in contemporary societies. First secularization theories (Berger, Wilson, Martin), even if constructed on the basis of the European experience, served as a universal theoretical framework, for interpreting changes of the position of religion in the global world. Along with growing evidences from outside and within Europe on vitality of religion, the secularization paradigm was challenged and its applicability was steadily limited.

The aim of this paper is to focus on the adaptation of the model into the Polish context under the socialist and post-socialist conditions. Taking into account cultural embeddeness of the model and it universality interesting is a question about the extent and the way in which the model has been present and used in the Poland?

Author Biography

  • Katarzyna Zielińska, Jagiellonian University

    Dr Katarzyna Zielińska is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology of Jagiellonian University. Her academic interests include theoretical developments in sociology of religion, intersection between religion and politics, gender, citizenship and democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. She is the author of “Spory wokół teorii sekularyzacji” (Debates on secularization theory).

    Email: katarzyna.zielinska@uj.edu.pl

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Published

2020-05-18

How to Cite

Localising Secularisation Thesis? The View from Poland. (2020). Religion and Society in Central and Eastern Europe, 4(1), 79-91. http://rascee.net/index.php/rascee/article/view/33