An Open Issue of Legitimacy: The State and the Church in Poland
@article{Walaszek1986AnOI,
title={An Open Issue of Legitimacy: The State and the Church in Poland},
author={Zdzislawa A. Walaszek},
journal={The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science},
year={1986},
volume={483},
pages={118 - 134}
}Since the founding of the Communist state in Poland, the growth of the institutionalized basis of Catholicism there has accelerated. This trend obviously reflects a continuing growth in the social base of support for Catholicism. This article presents church-state relations in terms of confrontation between the church and Communist rule, and it postulates that the Polish Roman Catholic Church has been transformed in the course of its coexistence with Communist rule and resembles very little the… Expand
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