Religious Populism? Some Reflections on Politics in Post-Socialist South-East Poland

In: Slovak foreign policy affairs: review for international politics, security and integration, Heft 1, S. 75-85

Abstract

Relying on ethnographic material from the city of Przemysl, the paper claims that a certain type of populism in south-east Poland is a result of the interdependency of religion and politics. It is based on particular features of the post-socialist social structure, practices, relations and ideologies; which the author provisionally calls post-peasantism. The author argues that it is religion that supervises the nation in south-east Poland and is able to offer an alternative ideology - as a fertile basis for populist mobilization - to currently dominant policies and discourses of capitalist modernity. Adapted from the source document.