Equal rights of religious organizations as one of the main principles of State-Church relations in Poland and the guarantee the secular nature of the Third Republic of Poland Cover Image

Równouprawnienie związków wyznaniowych jako jedna z naczelnych zasad relacji Państwo-Kościół w Polsce i gwarant świeckiego charakteru III Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej
Equal rights of religious organizations as one of the main principles of State-Church relations in Poland and the guarantee the secular nature of the Third Republic of Poland

Book review of Aneta M. Abramowicz, Równouprawnienie związków wyznaniowych w prawie polskim, Lublin: Wydawnictwo KUL 2018, 437 pages

Author(s): Katarzyna Krzysztofek-Strzała
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Constitutional Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Philosophy of Law
Published by: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II - Wydział Prawa, Prawa Kanonicznego i Administracji
Keywords: churches and other religious organizations; freedom of conscience and religion; Third Republic of Poland; dignity of the human person; religious freedom; wolność sumienia i religii;

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the review is the publication of Aneta Maria Abramowicz regarding the very important constitutional principle of equal rights of churches and other religious organizations in the Polish system of law on religion after 1989. The monograph presents an extensive analysis of the legal provisions on both the regulation of the legal position and the activity of churches and other religious organizations, focusing especially on their compliance with the principle mentioned above. The book includes a comprehensive introduction that shows the historical development of the principle of equality as well as a discussion of the principle at hand in the context of religious freedom in the individual and institutional dimensions. The reviewed work is the first monograph that devotes full attention to the principle of equal rights of churches and other religious organizations in Poland and is a valuable complement to the achievements of the study of Polish law on religion.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 23
  • Page Range: 539-546
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Polish