Religijność

W roku 2008 Konferencja Episkopatu Polski przyjęła "Zasady postępowania w sprawie formalnego aktu wystąpienia z Kościoła" (zmodyfikowane następnie w 2016 r). W roku 2011 rozpoczęła się w Polsce intensywna kampania społeczna na rzecz występowania z Kościoła katolickiego. Dlatego ISKK w tym czasie podjął próbę oszacowania skali apostazji w Polsce. W roku 2012 na konferencji prasowej zostały zaprezentowane podstawowe statystyki dotyczące skali wystąpień z Kościoła katolickiego.

Tab. Szacunkowe dane dotyczące apostazji w Polsce

W związku ze stosunkowa niewielką skalą zjawiska, ISKK nie kontynuował prac badawczych aktów apostazji w Polsce.

Nadzwyczajna forma rytu rzymskiego w odbiorze zaangażowanych polskich katolików. Raport z badania. ISKK 2017

Extraordinary Form of The Roman Rite In Perception of Committed Catholics In Poland. Research Results, ISKK 2017

Research Grant National Science Centre (nr 02985) launched in Februar 2018

This research project examines the transformation in religiosity of Polish immigrants living in Ireland. Since Poland’s accession to the European Union in 2004 Ireland became a common destination country for Poles’ emigration driven by economic factors. In the beginning this post-accession migration had a temporal character. The passage of time has changed, however, the migration’s form into settlement. Currently the population of Polish nationals in Ireland is still numerous. According to Irish statistics there are over 170 thousand Polish immigrants of total population 4,750 thousand. They constitute the most numerous subpopulation among all immigrants. The rising immigration prompts a multidimensional social change in Ireland, where about 15% of total population are people born overseas.  The aforementioned project scope has been examined, so far, from the economy, political and legal points of view on migration. Furthermore a few researches explore some migration aspects of sociology of family and culture. Nevertheless there is a lack of studies indicating religious dimension of migration. That is why our research project will fulfil the knowledge gap while analysing a relevant scientific question what is an interrelation between migration process and religiosity of immigrants. Thus the scientific aim of the project is an analysis of the transformation in religiosity of Polish immigrants in Ireland and answering the question how significant for decision making and for mapping migration strategy religion is.  The contribution of the study is both theoretical, discussing  leading concepts from the field of sociology of religion and migration, and empirical, trying to identify transformation of migrants’ religion and importance of religiosity to the international migration. We assume therefore that with the extended migration stay Polish immigrants become weaker in religiosity because they submit to the process of secularisation that has already impacted the Irish society in the past decades. Moreover, we presuppose that, notwithstanding the similar religious profile of Poland and Ireland (for both a dominant religion denomination is Catholicism), the immigrants who’s religiosity index is high are less willing to assimilate into receiving country. The reasons behind this process can be the increasing differences between a Polish model of Catholicism (which is popular across the Polish chaplaincy in Ireland) and an Irish model of Catholicism that is common in the local English-speaking parishes. The immigrants practising in the Polish-speaking chaplaincies seem to separate from the group of religious Irish Catholics and from non-religious Irish either

The transformation of the Polish society after 1989 is characterized by multidimensional changes, which refer to various dimensions of social life, including religion. One of the theoretical category used to describe these complex changes is “differentiation”. This theoretical category serves as a analytical tool for the study of religious transformation in Poland. This article aims to describe some elements of religious differentiation in Poland at the turn of the 20th and 21st century. It demonstrates that the “differentiation” is not a simple and uniform process, leading directly to the attenuation and disappearance of religiosity. According to presented statistical data, religious landscape in Poland is characterized rather by the process of polarization. In the article, some socio-political facts of the recent Polish history are reported. These facts explain the specificity of the Polish social polarization, which has strong religious background.

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