Religionsfrihet i en sekulär stat, en fallstudie av kommunisttidens Polen
(2011) MRSK30 20102Human Rights Studies
- Abstract
- After World War II Sovjet took over Poland with the plan of making it a socialist state in all its meanings, religious as well. That meant changing it from Roman Catholic to secular which turned out to be harder than expected because of the position of the church. The church was a symbol of the nation and a savior of the people and the communist party understood that this would be a process of transforming the state into a secular one. The time to come would be a struggle for both the state and the church because of both of their will to weaken the counterpart, though having agreed of separation and not intervening in each other’s business.
The purpose with this paper is to investigate how the relationship between the secular and... (More) - After World War II Sovjet took over Poland with the plan of making it a socialist state in all its meanings, religious as well. That meant changing it from Roman Catholic to secular which turned out to be harder than expected because of the position of the church. The church was a symbol of the nation and a savior of the people and the communist party understood that this would be a process of transforming the state into a secular one. The time to come would be a struggle for both the state and the church because of both of their will to weaken the counterpart, though having agreed of separation and not intervening in each other’s business.
The purpose with this paper is to investigate how the relationship between the secular and religious parts of a state should work for the best of human rights. With the help of Poland as a case study I have used Jürgen Habermas theory to see if it can be applied generally or only on liberal secular states. The theory states that the state and its institutions should be secular to provide the best environment for religious rights. It is also very important for both secular and religious groups to try to understand each other’s way of talking and to have complementary learning processes.
This theory sets the conditions for how a state should be built, in many levels, but that it in the end is the people who settle on how willing they are to understand different groups and work for everyone’s best. (Less)
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- author
- Johansson, Susanne LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- MRSK30 20102
- year
- 2011
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Human rights, Jürgen Habermas, Poland, Communism, Soviet, Workers rights, Religion, Solidarity, Mänskliga rättigheter, Kommunism, Religionsfrihet, Right to religion, Arbetarrättigheter, Religon, Solidaritet
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1759644
- date added to LUP
- 2011-02-07 19:56:02
- date last changed
- 2014-09-04 08:27:55
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