Magdalena Waligorska

Cross Purposes (eBook, PDF)

Catholicism and the Political Imagination in Poland

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Produktbeschreibung

Traces the controversial history of how the symbol of the cross in modern Poland has been appropriated by different secular projects.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009230926
• Artikelnr.: 70909486

Autorenporträt

Magdalena Waligórska is a cultural historian and sociologist. Her fields of interest include contemporary Polish and Belarusian history, nationalism and national symbols, Jewish heritage, Jewish/non-Jewish relations, and memory studies. She is currently leading a research group at the Department of European Ethnology of the Humboldt University in Berlin. She has published extensively on nationalism, Jewish culture, and Jewish-non-Jewish relations in journals including East European Politics and Societies, Holocaust Studies, East European Jewish Affairs, and Polin; Studies in Polish Jewry. Her first book, Klezmer's Afterlife: An Ethnography of the Jewish Music Revival in Poland and Germany, was published in 2013.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The ascendance of the cross
2. Colonization in the shadow of the cross
3. Female and furious: the invention of the 'defense of the cross'
4. Solidarity's sacred politics
5. The transformation crusades
6. Religious populism and its opponents
Conclusion.