期刊名称：Journal for Perspectives of Economic Political and Social Integration
印刷版ISSN：1733-3911
电子版ISSN：2300-0945
出版年度：2014
卷号：20
期号：1-2
页码：73
DOI：10.2478/v10241-012-0027-1
出版社：De Gruyter Open
摘要：In the Roman Catholic Church a parish is the smallest legal unit and it is themilieu for religious, social, and cultural activities for a group of people joinedtogether in a geographical area. The purpose of this article is a sociologicalstudy examining the Catholic parish in Poland as a local community. Todaya parish along with its community is exposed to social change and to myriadforces characteristic of the postmodern culture. In Poland two opposite forcescharacterize the life of a parish community: on the one side, secularization andindividualization, and on the other side, socialization and evangelization. Thesubjective dimension of a local community, which is related to identifi cation ofpeople with a local parish, along with social bonds with the parish as a localcommunity, are discussed in the fi rst two sections of the article. In subsequentsections some issues related to common activities, membership in movements,religious communities, and Catholic associations within the parish will be presented.While the agency of people in the parish community is theoreticallyacknowledged, it is still not fully implemented. The discussion is based on thedata obtained from major public opinion institutes in Poland.
