Title: Under the Cross: Polish Catholic Identity
in post-Christian Europe
Speaker: Adam Szostkiewicz
(Polityka weekly newsmagazine)
Discussant: Jonathan Luxmoore (freelance journalist
and author)
The main points of the talk:
1. Why history made the Cross a powerful sign in Polish national history?
2. A unique anti authoritarian alliance of the Church and liberal democratic opposition in the 70s and the 80s of the 20th century.
3. The falling apart of the alliance after 1989, 4the beginning and growth of the antiliberal/antimodern agenda in the mainstream Polish Catholicism in the Third Rzeczpospolita.
4. Selective uses of Polish Pope's legacy.
5. What kind of religion for the Poland of tomorrow?
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See the video podcast: Click here1. Why history made the Cross a powerful sign in Polish national history?
2. A unique anti authoritarian alliance of the Church and liberal democratic opposition in the 70s and the 80s of the 20th century.
3. The falling apart of the alliance after 1989, 4the beginning and growth of the antiliberal/antimodern agenda in the mainstream Polish Catholicism in the Third Rzeczpospolita.
4. Selective uses of Polish Pope's legacy.
5. What kind of religion for the Poland of tomorrow?
See the poster: Click here
See the photos: Click here