%0 Journal Article
%T Saving Polish Souls in Ordinary Time: Catholic Evangelization and Poland’s Transformation, 1975–1989
%A Curp, Timothy David
%J Studia Historica Gedanensia
%V 2016
%R 10.4467/23916001HG.16.009.6394
%N Tom 7 (2016)
%P 177-200

%@ 2081-3309
%D 2016
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-historica-gedanensia/artykul/saving-polish-souls-in-ordinary-time-catholic-evangelization-and-polands-transformation-1975-1989
%X 
	The paper Saving Polish Souls in Ordinary Time: Catholic Evangelization and Poland’s Transformation, 1975–1981 showed both the lived experience of pastoral ministry evangelization during a time of revolutionary transformation in Poland as well as the failure of party‑state elites to understand or address the threat of the first flowering of Catholic evangelization in the 1970s. Much of the scholarship on Catholicism in Poland identifies the sources of the Church’s power (and the party‑state’s animus toward religion) in the intersection of historical traditions and national‑religious identity. This conception, in part rooted in important aspects of Poland’s religious experience, but also dependent upon secularist readings of Polish religious life, too often ignores the changes that key sectors of the Catholic Church in Poland underwent after the Second Vatican Council. From then on, many Poles – especially those involved in pastoral practice (in Polish, duszpasterstwo, literally “the care of souls”) – brought about a revolution in grass‑roots religious practice by creating new and popular approaches to ministry that focused on religious formation and evangelization.