Daria Lucka

Since national affiliation and Catholic religion still play important roles in contemporary society in Poland, I will examine to what extent they create barriers and threats to the development of civil society and to what extent they might become its ally. My analysis will include, for example, the meaning of nationality, the character of the Catholic Church as a community, the role of a parish as a structure of civil society. I will look at empirical data from the perspective of theoretical approaches, namely liberal, conservative, and communitarian models of society.