ОЖИВЉАВАЊЕ КОНЗЕРВАТИВИЗМА НОВЕ ЕВРОПЕ: РЕЛИГИЈА И ПОЛИТИКА У ПОЉСКОЈ
Revival of Conservativism in the New Europe: Religion and Politcs in Poland

Author(s): Milan Blagojević
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Political Theory, Politics and religion
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: Conservativism; Catholic Church; Immigration; Islam; Law and Justice party; Liberalism; Antisemitism; Right-wing movements
Summary/Abstract: What separates Poland from increasingly more globalist and atheist societies of the West is a specific role of religion and church in this Central European country’s political and public life. Аs a country of traditionally strong catholicism and political right, Poland, next to other Visegrad group countries, is becoming increasingly more irritant to the liberal Europe as an example that breaks the ideological uniformity of the EU. Influenced by modern global changes, migrations and wars fought in the EU’s peripheral space, the differences between EU’s proclaimed values and de facto values of polish society are also becoming more obvious, especially when it comes to sensitive issues such as abortion, family, legalization of drugs, gay marriage, attitude towards the political left, liberalism and recently, treatment of muslim refugees. An interesting question that deserves more attention is the extent to which the Catholic Church can influence public opinion on this matters, and will the new waves of migration in the near future along with the rising right in the EU and USA, make the Catholic Church in Poland, the ruling Law and Justice party and other right-wing movements so powerfull that they could trigger a domino effect among Europe’s conservatives?

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