The Science of Religion in Poland: Past and Present

Grzymała-Moszczyńska, Halina; Hoffmann, Henryk

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“…No continuation of psychobiographical research has been conducted (Citlak, 2021b; Witwicki, 1909, 1958). A similar fate befell Witwicki's and Blachowski's original achievements in the psychology of religion—they have not found application in the research of Polish psychologists of religion, apart from in historical memoirs (Grzymała‐Moszczyńska & Hoffmann, 1991, 1998). The works of Rzepa (1991, 1997b, 1998, 2002) and her attempts to systematize the psychological achievements of the Lvov‐Warsaw School are an exception in this context.…”

Section: The Shape Of Polish Psychology After the Communist Regimementioning

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Psychology of the Lvov‐Warsaw School and the shape of postcommunist Polish psychology (unfinished dialog with Brentanian tradition)

Citlak

2022

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This article presents the development of Polish psychology from the perspective of the most important intellectual formation in Poland—the Lvov‐Warsaw School of Kazimierz Twardowski. The representatives of the school played an extraordinary role in the history of Polish psychology in the first half of the 20th century. Unfortunately, this influence was halted by the outbreak of the war in 1939 and by communist oppression and propaganda after the war. After 1989, Polish psychology underwent a deep transformation in the spirit of Western psychology but with no continuation of the most significant achievements of Twardowski's School. Although this process has integrated Polish psychologists into the mainstream of psychology in the world, it has not led to the integration of one of the most original European psychological traditions into world psychology.

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Section: The Shape Of Polish Psychology After the Communist Regimementioning

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Psychology of the Lvov‐Warsaw School and the shape of postcommunist Polish psychology (unfinished dialog with Brentanian tradition)

Citlak

2022

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“…The potential dominance of the power discourse-politics (ideology) and religion-thus influenced the supposedly most important discourse, one that should uniformly rule psychology: the scientific discourse. This situation was also undoubtedly affected by the tension between the Polish Society for the Study of Religions (founded 1958, and in operation till present day), whose Marxist-oriented members were often against religion, and the Catholic milieu (Grzymała-Moszczyńska & Hoffmann, 1998). On the other hand, this binary character of the discipline was often related to personal choices, and some scholars tried to avoid taking either stance, at least in publications, while others later maintained that their anti-religious, Marxist stance was just a declaration made for political reasons (Hoffmann, 2015, p. 107) which can of course also be seen as an excuse, or an attempt to change the team in the last minute of the match.…”

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Three decades of the Polish psychology of religion (1989–2020)

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2021

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Poland, being a post-Communist European country with a tradition of Marxists religious studies in operation till 1989, developed during the Communist Era an original way of connecting psychology of religion with the value-neutral study of religion. It is also a Catholic a country, in which psychology of religion was practiced in a bipolar milieu: religion as a “sensitive” topic was approached from either Marxist-atheist or Catholic religious perspective. Such dualistic divisions should end with the breaking of the Iron Curtain, and opening to the West, but was it so in this country of contrasts? The article forms a bird’s eye look on the last three decades of the Polish psychology of religion (1989–2020), concentrating on the “concrete products of scientific inquiry” therefore main works of scholars in the field are presented, discussed and context-wise interpreted in order to provide some answers for that query.

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“… 1. More about the general history of the psychology of religion in Poland: Grzymała-Moszczyńska & Hoffmann, 1998; Hoffmann, 2015 …”

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Psychology of religion in the theories and research of the Lvov-Warsaw School (basic achievements and developments)

Citlak

2021

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This article presents the basic achievements of the psychology of religion in the Lvov-Warsaw School of K. Twardowski, their developments and significance for the contemporary psychology of religion. Twardowski’s School existed parallel to other European psychological schools: the Würzburg School, founded by Oswald Külpe, and the Dorpat School of the Psychology of Religion, founded by Karl Girgensohn (unfortunately without mutual scientific relations). The article presents two research trends in the psychology of religion resulting from Twardowski’s works, specifically research on mental acts and religious beliefs with use of introspection and research in the field of cultural-historical psychology. The theory of acts and products, and the theory of cratism/power (similar to the theory of Alfred Adler) played crucial roles here. Psychological investigations into religious beliefs were also dominated by the psychological principle of contradiction, and the obtained results also seem to be important today.

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The Science of Religion in Poland: Past and Present

Cited by 3 publications

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Psychology of the Lvov‐Warsaw School and the shape of postcommunist Polish psychology (unfinished dialog with Brentanian tradition)

Psychology of the Lvov‐Warsaw School and the shape of postcommunist Polish psychology (unfinished dialog with Brentanian tradition)

Three decades of the Polish psychology of religion (1989–2020)

Psychology of religion in the theories and research of the Lvov-Warsaw School (basic achievements and developments)

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