Awards

• Winner of Association for Slavic, East European,and Eurasian Studies Kulczycki Book Prize in Polish Studies 2012.
• Winner of Winner of the ASEES Kulczycki Book Prize 2012.

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This is an abundantly rewarding and stimulating book with an ambitious and important theme: the meaning of Catholicism, broadly construed, in the eventful history of famously Catholic Poland ... No one who wishes to understand this vital topic can afford not to read Faith and Fatherland. Neal Pease, Journal of Church and State an ambitious monograph ... Its findings can contribute to a better understanding of modern Polish history and deserve to be widely read, discussed and debated. Ferenc Laczo, sehepunkte

<br> Roman Catholicism has long been a central element of Polish national identity, so that in Polish Catholicism, national ideals have become intertwined with Christian values and national identity has often taken precedence over universal principles. This passionately written, fascinating, and well-researched book is an account of the way Catholicism has shaped the Polish identity over the past one hundred and fifty years. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of East-Central Europe and in the relationship of religion to politics in recent times. -Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University<p><br> Faith and Fatherland is far and away the best recent study of modern Polish Catholicism in English. Covering two hundred years and drawing on a vast array of Polish sources, Brian Porter-Szucs traces the clergy's ambivalent and varied relationships with the nationalist movement, with secular anti-Semitism, and with the communist regime-but he also offers subtle explications

<br> This is an ambitious monograph in Catholic intellectual history. Its thoroughly researched chapters on central terms and concepts largely succeed at illuminating the evolution of the specific profile of and the diversity inherent to Polish Catholicism. Its findings can contribute to a better understanding of modern Polish history and deserve to be widely read, discussed and debated. --Zeitschrift f r Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung<p><br> Roman Catholicism has long been a central element of Polish national identity, so that in Polish Catholicism, national ideals have become intertwined with Christian values and national identity has often taken precedence over universal principles. This passionately written, fascinating, and well-researched book is an account of the way Catholicism has shaped the Polish identity over the past one hundred and fifty years. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of East-Central Europe and in the relationship of religion to politics i

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Professor of History, University of Michigan

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