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" Reshaping Poland's community after Communism : "
Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer.
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BL
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865768
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Chmielewska-Szlajfer, Helena
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Reshaping Poland's community after Communism : : ordinary celebrations /\ Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer.
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Cham, Switzerland :: Palgrave Macmillan,, [2019]
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1 online resource
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3319787357
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: 9783319787350
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9783319787343
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"Harnessing a cultural sociological approach to explore transformations in key social spheres in post-1989 Poland, Chmielewska-Szlajfer illuminates shifts in religiosity, sympathy towards others, and civic activity in post-Communist Poland in the light of Western influence over elements of Polish life. Reshaping Poland's Community after Communism focuses on three major cases, largely ignored in Polish scholarship: (1) a hugely popular, faux-baroque Catholic shrine, which illustrates new strategies adopted by the Polish Catholic Church to attract believers; (2) Woodstock Station, a widely known free charity music festival, demonstrating new practices of sympathy towards strangers; and (3) the emergence of national internet pro-voting campaigns and small-town watchdog websites, which uncover changes in practical uses of civic engagement. In exploring grass-roots, everyday negotiations of religiosity, charity, and civic engagement in contemporary Poland, Chmielewska-Szlajfer demonstrates how a country?s cultural changes can suggest wider, dramatic democratic transformation."--
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Post-communism-- Poland.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.
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Politics and government.
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Post-communism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Popular Culture.
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Poland, Social life and customs, 1989-
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Poland.
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943.805/7
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DK4448.C46 2019
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