Published: 2016-11-12

Between multitude of religions and the unity of the State. Religious-cultural dialogue in the times of the First Republic of Poland

Edward Gigilewicz
Pedagogical Forum
Section: Articles and essays
https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2013.1.02

Abstract

The territory of the First Republic of Poland was a specific religious-cultural mosaic. Apart from the Christian majority, which was constituted by Catholics, members of the Orthodox Church and Protestants, there were also quite populous non-Christian communities, gathering followers of Islam and Judaism. The exemplifications of attitudes portrayed in the article and the ways of conduct of the representatives of these minorities are, on the one hand, within the limits of full and sincere affirmation of Poland, yet, on the other hand, seem to show its complete negation. Thus, it is possible to claim that the idea of religious and cultural tolerance was an essential element of the Old Polish culture. If the process of the didactics of history includes such a vision of the history of Poland, it can lead to forming attitudes of affirmation of all dissimilarity existing in other man, without any feeling of threat to one’s own identity, which will then contribute to forming attitudes full of genuine tolerance.

Keywords:

Tatars, Jews, tolerance, dialogue

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Gigilewicz, E. (2016). Between multitude of religions and the unity of the State. Religious-cultural dialogue in the times of the First Republic of Poland. Pedagogical Forum, 3(1), 15–30. https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2013.1.02

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