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Religious Populism? Some Reflectons on Politics in Post-Socialist South-East Poland
Religious Populism? Some Reflectons on Politics in Post-Socialist South-East Poland

Author(s): Juraj Buzalka
Subject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association (RC SFPA)
Keywords: post-socialism; religion; politics; populist mobilization

Summary/Abstract: Relying on ethnographic material from the city of Przemyśl, the paper claims that a certain type of populism in south-east Poland is a result of the interdependency of religion and politics. It is based on particular features of the post-socialist social structure, practices, relations and ideologies; which the author provisionally calls post-peasantism. The author argues that it is religion that supervises the nation in south-east Poland and is able to offer an alternative ideology – as a fertile basis for populist mobilization - to currently dominant policies and discourses of capitalist modernity.

  • Issue Year: VI/2005
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 75 - 84
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English