A History of Polish Christianity
- Author: Jerzy Kloczowski, Institute of East-Central Europe, Lublin
- Date Published: December 2008
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521087759
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This is the only single-volume history of Christianity in Poland, a subject at the core of religious history and European secular history alike. The book covers the development of Polish Christianity from the tenth century to the present, placing it in the broader context of East-Central European political, social, religious and cultural history. A History of Polish Christianity should be read by anyone interested in the confrontation between Christianity and the totalitarian systems of the twentieth century, and in the interplay between Eastern and Western Christianity.
Read more- Tells the story of one of the most interesting national and transnational developments of Christianity over eleven centuries, covering all denominations
- Shows the role played by Christianity during a period of tragic and brutal confrontation with the totalitarian systems
- Helps to make sense of the complex political, social, economic and religious processes of East-Central European history
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"This richly informed study provides a broad survey of Christianity in Poland from the 10th through 20th century...This is a wonderfully successful achievement whose value is much enhanced by a superb bibliographic essay on the scholarship in Western languages, principally English."
-ChoiceSee more reviews"this book was richly adorned with color photographs and drawings."
-Slavic Review, Winter 2001"...this book fills a void in the ecclesiastical history of Europe. No one can understand recent developments in one of Europe's largest countries (or allied states such as the Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania) without digesting this volume."
-The Journal of Religion"The author has provided a most valuable work for English-speaking historians of Christianity and all those interested in central and eastern Europe..."
-The Historian"The church's relationship to Polish modernity is particularly vexing. Jerzy Kloczowski's History of Polish Christianity is thus a valuable companion to any encounter with Polish history."
-Padraic Kenney, University of Colorado, The Journal of Modern HistoryCustomer reviews
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- Date Published: December 2008
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521087759
- length: 424 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 160 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.62kg
- contains: 10 b/w illus. 16 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Foundations
2. The turning-point: the thirteenth century
3. The expansion of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
4. Great reforms
5. Post-Tridentine Catholicism and Polish baroque
6. Enlightenment and partitions
7. Slow revival in Bondage
8. The twentieth century defeats and successes
9. Postscript: after 1989.
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