Prohibition, Censorship, Denial: Polish Episcopate’s Narrative on (Homo)sexual Acts Between 1945 and 1989

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dc.contributor.authorLaddach, Agnieszka
dc.contributor.organizationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-24T12:53:14Z
dc.date.available2024-06-24T12:53:14Z
dc.date.issued2024-06-19
dc.description.abstractOne of the most important issues for the Polish Episcopate under communism was moral evaluation of sexual activities. Bishops suggested that, along with other immoral activities, homosexuality resulted from the popularization of Marxism and atheization of customs. This article presents a thematic analysis of the episcopal writings from 1945 to 1989, and their evaluation in light of Michel Foucault’s theory, in order to discuss Polish episcopal power in the context of its narrative on homosexuality. I present the doctrinal and historical context of the analyzed writings in a trichotomy: the Episcopate of Poland, the Apostolic See, and the authorities of the Polish People’s Republic. Moreover, I recognize that components of episcopal discourse suggest a multiplicity of power relations. In the selected period, these forces were the subjects of a game in which the church created strategies and chains of influence, and, as an agent of power, consolidated its position by demanding obedience. This image of the institutional church in Poland was established through a great central mechanism of denial that excluded any possibility of a positive moral evaluation of homosexual and other extramarital acts.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was funded by the National Science Centre in Poland, grant “The Polish Communist State and the Roman Catholic Church’s Power Toward the Sexual Agency of the Homosexual Priests Between 1945 and 1989” SONATINA, no. 2021/40/C/HS3/00088.
dc.identifier.citationAgnieszka Laddach, Prohibition, Censorship, Denial: Polish Episcopate’s Narrative on (Homo)sexual Acts Between 1945 and 1989, Journal of Church and State, 2024;, csae024, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/csae024
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/jcs/csae024
dc.identifier.issn2040-4867
dc.identifier.urihttps://open.icm.edu.pl/handle/123456789/24503
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherOxford University Press
dc.rightsUznanie autorstwa-Na tych samych warunkach 4.0 Międzynarodoween
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
dc.sourceJournal of Church and State
dc.subjectCatholic Churchen
dc.subjecttwentieth-century historyen
dc.subjectLGBT historyen
dc.subjectgender historyen
dc.subjectMichel Foucaulten
dc.titleProhibition, Censorship, Denial: Polish Episcopate’s Narrative on (Homo)sexual Acts Between 1945 and 1989en_US
dc.typearticle
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person.identifier.orcidLaddach, Agnieszka [0000-0002-2823-8550]
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