Rise and Fall of the Christian Democrats’ Movement in Poland after 1989
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/rsth.v27i1.69Keywords:
Polish church, Christian Democratic MovementAbstract
This article sets out to explain why Poland has not been successful in establishing a Christian political party...this in the face of the overwheming evidence of religiosity in the Polish national ethos. Drawing on historical and cultural elements, it details a Polish reluctance to link together Church and State so thoroughly when religion already influences the State in other less-overt political ways.
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