Between Repudiation and Acceptance. The Evolution of Social Attitudes towards the Baptist Church in Poland
Journal: Adam Mickiewicz University Repository (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan)
Year: 2013

The evolution of social attitudes towards the Baptist Church in Poland is an interesting example that delineates mechanisms of functioning of a religious minority in societies spiritually dominated by one religion: the Roman Catholic Church for the Poles, the Evangelical – Augsburg Church for the German minority and the Orthodox Church for the Belarusians and the Ukrainians. In the introductory chapter I describe history of the Baptist movement in Poland in a nutshell. In the second chapter, I o