Faith and Fatherland: Catholicism, Modernity, and Poland
Faith and Fatherland: Catholicism, Modernity, and Poland
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Editorial Reviews
A bold contribution...[T]his meticulously researched, highly compelling narrative offers a more powerful reassessment than can be discussed in a single brief review. It is a rich treasure trove of insights on Catholic thinking and an important contribution to Polish nationalism studies.
Faith and
Fatherland is sure to become a classic in the field, and Brian Porter-Szucs should be congratulated on his achievement.--
The Journal of Modern History
A major book about a truly significant topic. While its relevance is most directly applicable to Polish studies or histories of Roman Catholicism, the book would be useful for scholars of other world religions, political movements, and religiously motivated groups. Cognizant that the outworn
secularization narrative of modernity has failed to account for the abundant evidence of modern religious thought, identification, and practice, we should welcome such insightful, thorough, and compelling studies of religion (and nationalism) as
Faith and Fatherland.--
Journal of World History
Impressive and insightful. --
American Historical Review
Faith and Fatherland is recommended for both Poles and non-Poles who want a fresh perspective on the role of a church that has never been synonymous with the Polish state.--
Conscience
This is an ambitious monograph in Catholic intellectual history. Its thoroughly researched chapters on central terms and concepts largely succeed at illuminating the evolution of the specific profile of and the diversity inherent to Polish Catholicism. Its findings can contribute to a better
understanding of modern Polish history and deserve to be widely read, discussed and debated.--
Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Roman Catholicism has long been a central element of Polish national identity, so that in Polish Catholicism, national ideals have become intertwined with Christian values and national identity has often taken precedence over universal principles. This passionately written, fascinating, and
well-researched book is an account of the way Catholicism has shaped the Polish identity over the past one hundred and fifty years. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of East-Central Europe and in the relationship of religion to politics in recent times.--Antony Polonsky,
Brandeis University
Faith and Fatherland is far and away the best recent study of modern Polish Catholicism in English. Covering two hundred years and drawing on a vast array of Polish sources, Brian Porter-Szucs traces the clergy's ambivalent and varied relationships with the nationalist movement, with secular
anti-Semitism, and with the communist regime--but he also offers subtle explications of theological and doctrinal developments. This book highlights the complexities of church-state relations in the modern era, and provides a much fuller understanding of relationships between modernizing processes
and Europe's religious life and thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.--Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State University
No other work probes so deeply the history of religion in East Central Europe- indeed, perhaps in all of Europe-in the modern period. Throughout Porter-Szucs makes complex theology not only accessible but vitally important for understanding larger historical processes. This is a history of Poland
told through Catholicism that makes clear that neither can be understood independent of the other.--John Connelly, University of California, Berkeley
This is an ambitious monograph in Catholic intellectual history. Its thoroughly researched chapters on central terms and concepts largely succeed at illuminating the evolution of the specific profile of and the diversity inherent to Polish Catholicism. Its findings can contribute to a better
understanding of modern Polish history and deserve to be widely read, discussed and debated.--Ferenc Laczó, Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
The mutation of Porter-Szûcs's discourse analysis into intellectual history in the middle of this very impressive endeavor poses a central question to the field. Should east European history continue to build national frameworks, applying to them theoretical approaches familiar from west European
history? Or should east European history address events that transcend the nation, such as the Holocaust, and in so doing seek to transcend those national frameworks? Porter-Szûcs's book delivers excellent examples of both approaches, and perhaps an answer to this question.--
Slavic Review
About the Author
Brian Porter-Szûcsis Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of
When Nationalism Began to Hate: Imagining Modern Politics in Nineteenth-Century Poland (OUP, 2000), which won the Oskar Halecki Award of the Polish Institute for Arts and Sciences in America and the Polish
Studies Association Award, and co-editor of
Christianity and Modernity in Eastern Europe.
When Nationalism Began to Hate: Imagining Modern Politics in Nineteenth-Century Poland (OUP, 2000), which won the Oskar Halecki Award of the Polish Institute for Arts and Sciences in America and the Polish
Studies Association Award, and co-editor of
Christianity and Modernity in Eastern Europe.
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Description
Editorial Reviews
A bold contribution...[T]his meticulously researched, highly compelling narrative offers a more powerful reassessment than can be discussed in a single brief review. It is a rich treasure trove of insights on Catholic thinking and an important contribution to Polish nationalism studies.
Faith and
Fatherland is sure to become a classic in the field, and Brian Porter-Szucs should be congratulated on his achievement.--
The Journal of Modern History
A major book about a truly significant topic. While its relevance is most directly applicable to Polish studies or histories of Roman Catholicism, the book would be useful for scholars of other world religions, political movements, and religiously motivated groups. Cognizant that the outworn
secularization narrative of modernity has failed to account for the abundant evidence of modern religious thought, identification, and practice, we should welcome such insightful, thorough, and compelling studies of religion (and nationalism) as
Faith and Fatherland.--
Journal of World History
Impressive and insightful. --
American Historical Review
Faith and Fatherland is recommended for both Poles and non-Poles who want a fresh perspective on the role of a church that has never been synonymous with the Polish state.--
Conscience
This is an ambitious monograph in Catholic intellectual history. Its thoroughly researched chapters on central terms and concepts largely succeed at illuminating the evolution of the specific profile of and the diversity inherent to Polish Catholicism. Its findings can contribute to a better
understanding of modern Polish history and deserve to be widely read, discussed and debated.--
Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
Roman Catholicism has long been a central element of Polish national identity, so that in Polish Catholicism, national ideals have become intertwined with Christian values and national identity has often taken precedence over universal principles. This passionately written, fascinating, and
well-researched book is an account of the way Catholicism has shaped the Polish identity over the past one hundred and fifty years. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of East-Central Europe and in the relationship of religion to politics in recent times.--Antony Polonsky,
Brandeis University
Faith and Fatherland is far and away the best recent study of modern Polish Catholicism in English. Covering two hundred years and drawing on a vast array of Polish sources, Brian Porter-Szucs traces the clergy's ambivalent and varied relationships with the nationalist movement, with secular
anti-Semitism, and with the communist regime--but he also offers subtle explications of theological and doctrinal developments. This book highlights the complexities of church-state relations in the modern era, and provides a much fuller understanding of relationships between modernizing processes
and Europe's religious life and thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.--Suzanne Marchand, Louisiana State University
No other work probes so deeply the history of religion in East Central Europe- indeed, perhaps in all of Europe-in the modern period. Throughout Porter-Szucs makes complex theology not only accessible but vitally important for understanding larger historical processes. This is a history of Poland
told through Catholicism that makes clear that neither can be understood independent of the other.--John Connelly, University of California, Berkeley
This is an ambitious monograph in Catholic intellectual history. Its thoroughly researched chapters on central terms and concepts largely succeed at illuminating the evolution of the specific profile of and the diversity inherent to Polish Catholicism. Its findings can contribute to a better
understanding of modern Polish history and deserve to be widely read, discussed and debated.--Ferenc Laczó, Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung
The mutation of Porter-Szûcs's discourse analysis into intellectual history in the middle of this very impressive endeavor poses a central question to the field. Should east European history continue to build national frameworks, applying to them theoretical approaches familiar from west European
history? Or should east European history address events that transcend the nation, such as the Holocaust, and in so doing seek to transcend those national frameworks? Porter-Szûcs's book delivers excellent examples of both approaches, and perhaps an answer to this question.--
Slavic Review
About the Author
Brian Porter-Szûcsis Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of
When Nationalism Began to Hate: Imagining Modern Politics in Nineteenth-Century Poland (OUP, 2000), which won the Oskar Halecki Award of the Polish Institute for Arts and Sciences in America and the Polish
Studies Association Award, and co-editor of
Christianity and Modernity in Eastern Europe.
When Nationalism Began to Hate: Imagining Modern Politics in Nineteenth-Century Poland (OUP, 2000), which won the Oskar Halecki Award of the Polish Institute for Arts and Sciences in America and the Polish
Studies Association Award, and co-editor of
Christianity and Modernity in Eastern Europe.
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