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The battle for symbolic power : Kraków as a stage of renegotiation of the social position of the Catholic Church in Poland
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The battle for symbolic power : Kraków as a stage of renegotiation of the social position of the Catholic Church in Poland
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| title: | The battle for symbolic power : Kraków as a stage of renegotiation of the social position of the Catholic Church in Poland |
| author: | Motak Dominika  , Krotofil Joanna , Wójciak Dorota
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| journal title: | Religions |
| volume: | 12 |
| issue: | 8 |
| date of publication : | 2021 |
| article ID: | 594 |
| eISSN: |
2077-1444 |
| DOI: | |
| language: | English |
| journal language: | English |
| abstract in English: | In academic and popular discourses, Poland has been consistently described as a "Catholic country". However, the level of identification with the Catholic Church in Poland has been gradually declining in the last three decades. In this paper, we explore the recent wave of civil protests which began in october 2020 as a reaction to the new restrictions on legal access to abortion. Thousands of people took to the streets to participate in what became known as "the Women’s Strike". The protesters not only rejected the government but also dissented from the Catholic Church and its strong influence over the Polish state. The case study presented here focuses on the events that took place in Kraków, particularly the protests around the famous "Pope’s window". We identify the symbolic tools used by the protesters and explore the connection between "Women’s Strike", the emergent discourses on the poor handling of the sexual abuse problems in the Catholic Church by John Paul II and his close associates, and the growing contestation of Church’s position towards LGBTQ+. We employ the notion of crisis to discuss the implications of the mass protests to the transformation of the Catholic landscape in Poland. |
| keywords in English: | Catholic church, abortion, women’s strike, protests |
| number of pulisher's sheets: | 1 |
| affiliation: | Wydział Filozoficzny : Instytut Religioznawstwa, Szkoła Doktorska Nauk Humanistycznych |
| field and discipline of science: | Dziedzina nauk humanistycznych : nauki o kulturze i religii |
| type: | journal article |
| subtype: | academic paper |
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