caa a22 4500 467898502 CHVBK 20180406152811.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20061201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10708-007-9058-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10708-007-9058-z Bilska-Wodecka Elżbieta Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University, 7 Gronostajowa St, 30-387, Cracow, Poland aut From multi-confessional to mono-confessional state. State-church relations in Poland following World War II [Elektronische Daten] [Elżbieta Bilska-Wodecka] According to Madeley's (2003) comparative framework of state-church relations in Europe, Poland is part of the historic Northeast-Southeast multi-confessional culture belt. The aim of this paper is to analyse the historic relationships between the Polish state and church in relation to this framework with special attention to the post-Second World War period and to the consequences for the Polish religious landscape. In contrast to the multi-confessionality of the historic Polish polities, after the Second World War Poland became a mono-confessional, Roman-Catholic country. Territorial changes, the resettlement of people and the annihilation of the Jewish population by the Nazis were responsible for this religious homogenisation. Consequently, the relationship between state and church was almost completely confined to the relationship with the Roman-Catholic Church. During the 45years of communist dominance, that church became the largest public organisation independent of the state authorities and played the most important role in the struggle against the ‘atheisation' of Polish society as a consequence of the strong support for the church by the majority of people. The post-1989 period is characterised by a liberalisation towards non-Catholic religious communities and - after an initial reluctance - a positive attitude of the Polish Roman-Catholic Church (strongly supported by the Polish Pope John Paul II) towards the Polish membership of the European Union. Springer Science + Business Media B.V., 2007 Policy of atheisation nationallicence Church-state relations nationallicence Poland nationallicence Catholic Church nationallicence Orthodox nationallicence Jews nationallicence Protestant churches nationallicence GeoJournal Kluwer Academic Publishers 67/4(2006-12-01), 341-355 0343-2521 67:4<341 2006 67 10708 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-007-9058-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-007-9058-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Bilska-Wodecka Elżbieta Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, Jagiellonian University, 7 Gronostajowa St, 30-387, Cracow, Poland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- GeoJournal Kluwer Academic Publishers 67/4(2006-12-01), 341-355 0343-2521 67:4<341 2006 67 10708 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer