Harnessing a cultural sociological approach to explore transformations in key social spheres in post-1989 Poland, Chmielewska-Szlajfer illuminates shifts in religiosity, sympathy towards others, and civic activity in post-Communist Poland in the light of Western influence over elements of Polish life.
Reshaping Poland’s Community after Communism focuses on three major cases, largely ignored in Polish scholarship: (1) a hugely popular, faux-baroque Catholic shrine, which illustrates new strategies adopted by the Polish Catholic Church to attract believers; (2) Woodstock Station, a widely known free charity music festival, demonstrating new practices of sympathy towards strangers; and (3) the emergence of national internet pro-voting campaigns and small-town watchdog websites, which uncover changes in practical uses of civic engagement.
In exploring grass-roots, everyday negotiations of religiosity, charity, and civic engagement in contemporary Poland, Chmielewska-Szlajfer demonstrates how a country’s cultural changes can suggest wider, dramatic democratic transformation.
Reshaping Poland’s Community after Communism focuses on three major cases, largely ignored in Polish scholarship: (1) a hugely popular, faux-baroque Catholic shrine, which illustrates new strategies adopted by the Polish Catholic Church to attract believers; (2) Woodstock Station, a widely known free charity music festival, demonstrating new practices of sympathy towards strangers; and (3) the emergence of national internet pro-voting campaigns and small-town watchdog websites, which uncover changes in practical uses of civic engagement.
In exploring grass-roots, everyday negotiations of religiosity, charity, and civic engagement in contemporary Poland, Chmielewska-Szlajfer demonstrates how a country’s cultural changes can suggest wider, dramatic democratic transformation.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9783319787343
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-3-319-78734-3
- Verlag: Springer International Publishing
- Erscheinungstermin: 05.07.2018
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2019
- Produktform: Gebunden, HC runder Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 388 g
- Seiten: 191
- Format (B x H x T): 153 x 216 x 16 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Themen
- Sozialwissenschaften
- Ethnologie | Volkskunde
- Ethnologie
- Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
- Sozialwissenschaften
- Politikwissenschaft
- Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
- Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten