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Solidarity of Sisters: Moral Politics in the Polish Left-Wing Discourse about LGBTQIA+

Publication date: 2024

Studia Religiologica, 2023, Volume 56 Issue 3, pp. 35 - 49

https://doi.org/10.4467/20844077SR.23.011.19999

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Matylda Ciołkosz
Institute for the Study of Religions, Jagiellonian University, Grodzka 52 31-044 Kraków
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Solidarity of Sisters: Moral Politics in the Polish Left-Wing Discourse about LGBTQIA+

Abstract

The paper is a summary of a pilot study applying George Lakoff’s concept of moral politics in a Polish context. The part of the study under discussion involved an analysis of articles published in Polish left-wing press between 2019 and 2021, focusing on the issue of LGBTQIA+ rights. The results of the analysis support Lakoff’s thesis that the way socio-political views are framed and expressed depends on an implicitly applied cognitive model of morality. The author discusses the conceptual metaphors of morality applied by the studied authors, relating them to the nurturant parent model of morality postulated by Lakoff, and providing preliminary insights into how Polish moral politics differs from its American counterpart.

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Information: Studia Religiologica, 2023, Volume 56 Issue 3, pp. 35 - 49

Article type: Original article

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English: Solidarity of Sisters: Moral Politics in the Polish Left-Wing Discourse about LGBTQIA+

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8168-4859

Matylda Ciołkosz
Institute for the Study of Religions, Jagiellonian University, Grodzka 52 31-044 Kraków
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8168-4859 Orcid
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Institute for the Study of Religions, Jagiellonian University, Grodzka 52 31-044 Kraków

Published at: 2024

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Research summarised in this paper is a part of the project God, Citizen, Religion, and Community in Polish LGBTQ+ discourse (DEC-2020/04/X/HS1/01584), funded by the National Science Centre, Poland (NCN).

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