Katarzyna Zielinska

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Jagiellonian University

Poland has one of the strictest abortion laws in Europe, and anti-abortion discourse shapes the debate and social attitudes towards the issue. The paper aims to reconstruct the way in which this discourse, as exemplified in the Polish right-wing press, constructs negative views about abortion and to identify the legitimation mechanisms it employs t...

This article focuses on analysis of redefinitions of intimate citizenship visions in the arenas created by recent women's protests in Poland. The 2016 and 2018 attempts by the Sejm, the lower house of the Polish Parliament, to introduce amendments to the existing law regulating access to abortion in Poland stirred dramatic social mobilisation and w...

In 2012, the governmental and parliamentary discussions around the ratification of the Council’s of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence stirred wave of negative reactions from the Roman Catholic Church representatives in Poland. In our view, these interventions offer an interesting case for stu...

Pytanie o obecność religii w sferze publicznej współczesnych społeczeństw liberalnej demokracji od kilku dekad stanowi ważny wątek debat filozoficznych oraz badań społecznych. Dyskusje na ten temat mają też lokalny wymiar – spory o akceptowalne miejsce i funkcje religii w polskim życiu publicznym pozostają nieodłącznym elementem politycznych oraz a...

SUMMARY: DEBATES ON SECULARISATION THEORIES This book aims to provide a systematic analysis of the assumptions of the secularization paradigm and debates on secularization theories and processes present in the field of sociology of religion. It is an attempt to reconstruct elements of the process of construction, stabilization and evolution of the...

The REDIRECT Survey Dataset includes data from citizen and elite surveys conducted in 2025 across Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Norway, and the United Kingdom. While the citizen survey data remains under embargo and the elite survey is ongoing, the aim of this first version of the Codebook is to present the topics and dimensions...

The article aims to address the complexity of the models of masculinity (re)produced in the transnational context and explain the role of religion in this process. It draws on qualitative research conducted among religiously committed Catholic male migrants from Poland who have settled in multicultural and secular societies: England, Belgium, and S...

The existing research on and conceptualization of the public presence of religion usually builds on the Habermasian understanding of the public sphere. This has centered the discussion on the public presence of religion around the question of where such a presence is justified. Discourse theories offer an alternative understanding, stating that the...

This article examines the practices that maintain the gender asymmetry in transnational migratory religious organisations, as exemplified by the Polish organisations of the Roman Catholic Church (so-called Polish Catholic Missions). Based on interviews with women and men involved in these structures as well as on our observations during fieldwork,...

W artykule analizujemy konstruowanie męskości przez polskich migrantów zaangażowanych w działalność polskich organizacji Kościoła katolickiego za granicą. Przedstawiamy wyniki badań, które przeprowadziłyśmy w latach 2016–2018 z aktywnymi religijnie polskimi mężczyznami migrantami, w trzech krajach: Anglii, Belgii i Szwecji. Ramą heurystyczną analiz...

The article examines the transformations of masculine formal (ordained) power in the Polish migrant religious organisations of the Roman Catholic Church. Based on qualitative in-depth interviews with 97 transmigrant women and men (consecrated and lay activists) involved in 14 Polish Catholic Mission organisations in England, Belgium and Sweden, the...

The attitudes and evolution of views of various religious organizations on human rights are well recognized in scholarly work. However, research on the potential links connecting religious views, beliefs and identities with perceptions of and support for human rights seems to be far less developed. This paper aims to bridge this gap.

Co się dzieje w polskich organizacjach Kościoła rzymskokatolickiego poza granicami kraju? Organizacje te muszą działać w społeczeństwach pluralistycznych i wielokulturowych, o znacznym stopniu sekularyzacji, w których o wiele bardziej powszechne niż w Polsce są idee równości płci i emancypacji. Czy otwierają się na nowe egalitarne wzory, czy też ko...

Celem artykułu jest pokazanie, w jaki sposób zastosowanie teorii dyskursu do problematyzowania rozumienia religii i sfery publicznej może skierować uwagę na nowe aspekty w badaniu publicznej roli religii. Artykuł składa się z trzech części. W pierwszej, krótko prezentuję dotychczasowe badania na temat publicznej obecności religii, ze szczególnym uw...

In recent years in political sciences, we have been able to observe a renaissance of scholarly interest in the role of religion in politics. At its basis lies refutation of the claims of the secularisation thesis, which assume the privatisation of religion in modern societies and its irrelevance to politics. Scholars today stress that in fact this...

Owing to an oversight, the affiliations of the second and the fourth authors of this book were published with errors. The correct presentation is as below.

This article compares attitudes towards abortion and euthanasia in two countries with different Christian traditions. Poland is a former communist country with a strong Catholic tradition. Norway is a highly secularized Scandinavian country with a dominating Lutheran Church. The two countries have different legal frameworks regarding abortion and e...

Celem artykułu jest analiza wzorów działań kobiet i mężczyzn w polskich migracyjnych organizacjach religijnych Kościoła rzymskokatolickiego na przykładzie Polskich Misji Katolickich (PMK) w Anglii, Belgii i Szwecji, rozpatrywanych jako izomorficzne, to znaczy zależne od środowiska społecznego i zmieniające się w jego kontekście. PMK to organizacje,...

The enlargement of 2004 and 2007 significantly transformed the European Union in political, economic, and social terms. It also challenged the collective identities of Western Europeans as well as each of the newcomers. However, for new members, the prospect of joining a supranational political entity posed a threat to their newly established or re...

Since the beginning of the 1980s, the previously one-dimensional economic approach that was once dominant in migration studies has been critically reviewed and, as a result, migration has become problematised. The incorporation of other dimensions in the analysis of the processes of migration allowed for more complex diagnoses of global inequalitie...

Religious education, understood as education about religion and seen as part of the general educational system, is perceived as a viable vehicle for promoting democratic values via spreading knowledge on religions and promoting mutual understanding, strengthening respect for religious freedom and diversity or civic values and norms. Does confession...

Food and eating serve as an expression of social relations and roles as well as a mechanism sustaining or challenging the social structure and roles. This also includes marking and reproducing gender roles and identities. With the profound social, cultural, and political changes that have taken place there recently, Poland offers an interesting cas...

Discussion of impact of EU integration on gender equality policies in Poland Chapter available as part of a report: http://dspace.nplg.gov.ge/bitstream/1234/170939/1/GenderPoliciesAndEUIntegration.pdf

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For a long time, the Roman Catholic Church had a problem with coming to terms with both democracy as a political system and the norm and concept of human rights. Generally speaking, the difficulties were an outcome of the incompatibilities between understanding of the concept of rights in the classical natural law tradition of the Catholic Church a...

Antologia ma na celu przybliżenie polskim czytelnikom problematyki oporu – jego różnorodnych, indywidualnych i zbiorowych, strategii i form – w perspektywie nauk społecznych, w szczególności antropologii społecznej. Choć tematyka ta od kilku dekad cieszy się bardzo dużą popularnością wśród badaczy społecznych na całym świecie, w Polsce znanych i do...

Recent years have shown a growing academic interest in the role and function of religion in the EU. This resulted from ongoing discussions on the symbolic deficit of the European project and politicised debate on the Christian roots of European identity, as well as from the enlargement of 2004, which brought into the EU new member-states with diffe...

Defining the concept of religion is a recurring theme in the sociology of religion. Yet the constant attempts to determine the subject of the study do not necessarily indicate the immaturity of the discipline. The ongoing discussions are rather part of a broader problem, as the acceptance or rejection of certain understandings of the core concepts...

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This paper examines the three models of democracy delineated in the RECON project and subjects them to a feminist appraisal. It begins with some general remarks about what each model of democracy – nation-state audit (model 1), federal multinational (model 2) and regional cosmopolitan (model 3) – holds for a feminist conception of politics. It then...

The secularisation paradigm has for a long time been the dominant frame of reference for understanding the place and function of religion in contemporary societies. The first secularisation theories (Berger, Wilson, Martin), even if constructed on the basis of the European experience, served as a universal theoretical framework for interpreting the...

In the years after the breakthrough events of 1989, the concept of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) came to be widely used as a synonym for the group of ten countries from the former Eastern Bloc aspiring to EU membership. This book is an attempt to demonstrate and assess the changes resulting from the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007 and European...