Stawiska, Zuzanna (2023) Multifaceted Religious Identity in Poland: Experiences of Believers Distancing Themselves from the Catholic Church. Bachelor thesis, Global Responsibility & Leadership (GRL).
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Abstract
Despite the clear domination of Catholicism in the Polish religious landscape, belief there is nowhere close to homogenous. This ethnographic study shines a light on the diversity of religious experiences in Poland, especially those of distanced believers, who are often omitted in quantitative analyses. Such a group is especially interesting from the scientific point of view as it breaches with the usually assumed identity of institutional religion and personal beliefs. Having provided the historical and conceptual background of the progressing secularisation of the country, I go on to analyse the individual motivations for distancing oneself from the Church, as well as conceptualisations of personal faith as separate from institutional religion and independent of religious communities. I conclude that this group of distanced believers is, in essence, Davie’s (1990) believers without belonging.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Name supervisor: | Coler, M.L. |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Sep 2023 09:53 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Sep 2023 09:53 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/277 |
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