Populizm to jedno z największych wyzwań współczesności nie tylko w rozumieniu kulturowym, społecznym i politycznym, ale także religijnym. Niezależnie od tego, czy to judaizm, chrześcijaństwo lub islam, każda z tych religii wraz z jej symbolami, obrazami, metaforami i przypowieściami, jest narażana na mimowolny i „bezbożny sojusz” z populizmem, który wykorzystuje religię do osiągnięcia własnych celów na drodze politycznej manipulacji, potęgowania postaw antyimigranckich, dewaluacji innych grup społecznych, a także antyestablishmentu i antypluralizmu. Celem niniejszego artykułu jest zatem ukazanie relacji, jakie zachodzą pomiędzy populistyczną „ideologią o cienkim rdzeniu”, a głównymi religiami monoteistycznymi w ramach ideologicznego zawłaszczania religii przez populistów, które posiada każdorazowo jednakowy „punkt styczny”, tj. upolitycznienie religii i sakralizację polityki.
The Right-wing populism in Poland faces multiple challenges with respect to Religious Education. This is a complex issue, given it is not only about school education supporting pro-democratic positions in the modern generation of students, but also the fact that today’s populists have participated in long-term and complex educational processes of a similar nature. In this sense, the aim of this article is to seek an answer to the question of how Religious Education in Poland—with all of its theoretical and cognitive background rooted in the Christian vision of God and human and the world—can contribute to the elimination of the alliance of the right-wing populist perspectives from the dominant religion of the nation. The article will explain how practical educational opportunities will help students to understand the political strategy of populists, decipher their presentations and approaches, and so shape a positive attitude towards democracy as a desired ideological system within government and social life.
Since 2015, power in Poland has been exercised by the right-wing populist coalition, led by the socially conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party. The deconfliction mark of these governments became the “unholy alliance” with Christianity, which was a movement that used populist manipulation based on exacerbating social dichotomy, campaigning against the LGBT community, nationalism, xenophobia, attitudes of rejection, anti-pluralism and anti-establishment. In this context, the aim of this article is to theoretically analyse the ideological and religious frames between right-wing populism and Christianity in Poland. The considerations begin with the presentation of the theoretical background, that is, the relationship that exists between the populist “thin-core ideology” and Christianity within the framework of ideological appropriation of religion by populists. Furthermore, the author will make an attempt to decipher mutual influences and seek answers to the question: How did PiS “hijack” the Catholic Church in Poland? The next step will present a comparative identification of convergent and divergent frameworks between right-wing populists and the Catholic Church in Poland. Finally, the article will outline indications for the socio-pastoral prevention of populism and a summary of the main results.
Temat Jezusa Chrystusa jest rzadko poruszany w pismach L. Kołakowskiego. Polski filozof, choć w Jezusie widział raczej człowieka – „proroka i reformatora” – niźli Boga, przyjmuje wobec Chrystusa postawę niejako „apologety z zewnątrz”, czyli nakreśla jego obraz, a co za tym idzie także obraz chrześcijaństwa, „zgodnego” z filozoficznym umysłem człowieka niewierzącego. W tym sensie chęć zrozumienia posłannictwa i dzieła Jezusa Chrystusa stanowi w pismach L. Kołakowskiego niezmiernie oryginalna kartę. Poza tym bliższe poznanie intelektualnej spuścizny tego wybitego myśliciela w omawianym obszarze może stanowić źródło impulsów i inspiracji dla samych chrześcijan, agnostyków, a nawet i ateistów, wytrwale poszukujących odpowiedzi na nurtujące ich pytania dotyczące osobowego Boga lub sensu i celowości ludzkiego życia.
The issue of the “political turn” in the context of religious-pedagogical reflection in Poland should be considered – in some sense – as “absent discourse”. Despite this, one of the leading tasks of the Catholic Church, and thus of religious education in Polish schools, is to shape believers so, that they are not only good Christians, but also citizens, aware of their rights and obligations. Based on this assumption, in the first step of the theoretical analysis, the relations between the Church itself and politics were presented. Then, the “broadened” and at the same time pro-democratic horizon of the religion lesson was outlined. Finally, the religious and pedagogical perspectives were presented, not only directly related to the political dimension of religious education in Poland, but also challenging it in terms of content, structure and concept.
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