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Zastosowanie marketingu relacji w duszpasterstwie
The Use of Relationship Marketing in Pastoral Care

Author(s): Dariusz Lipiec
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion, Pastoral Theology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Papieskiego Jana Pawła II w Krakowie
Keywords: relationship marketing; pastoral care; affiliate marketing; the Church and marketing; the organization of the pastoral care

Summary/Abstract: Relationship marketing consists in building long-term customer relationships in order to provide the customer with certain values. It aims to satisfy the customer’s needs and expectations as well as creating and fostering his satisfaction. Although the Church is not an organization which provides certain products or services, she can make use of relationship marketing mechanisms in her ministry. Pastoral care uses the segmentation of “customers” — the addressees of the Church’s ministry, on the basis of their needs and their religious conditions. Marketing sciences indicate four stages of relationship marketing: formation, management, evaluation of results and evolution. All of these are used in Catholic pastoral care.

  • Issue Year: 26/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 83-100
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish