Czy zmierzch Kościoła ludowego w Polsce?

Abstract

The author discusses the transformations of the folk’s Church in Poland in the context of the West European societies. He is interested in the inception, development and disappearance of the folk’s Church. Against the background of other countries Poland constitutes a certain phenomenon with a view to her specific socio-political situation. Accordingly, the folk’s Church could remain almost in her unchanged form. The author discusses in particular the folk’s Church in the three contexts: the pagan, Christian, and lay context. Then he goes on to describe the characteristics and functions of the folk’s Church in the world and in Poland. Finally, he pinpoints her transformations in Poland, signalling her cultural specificity in relation o the West. This specificity consists in a strong impact of tradition, which may hamper the transformation of the folk’s Church into an “insular” Church.