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TIGHE CHRONICLES THE HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN POLAND DISCUSSES ITS ROLE IN THE TURMOIL WHICH LED TO THE BIRTH AND THE PROHIBITION OF SOLIDARITY. HE CONTENDS THAT, POPULAR OPINION TO THE CONTRARY, THE CHURCH DOES NOT REPRESENT THE POLISH PEOPLE, BUT THAT IT RATHER, WITH THE STATE, FORMS WHAT IN EFFECT IS A RULING-CLASS COOPERATIVE, THAT SOLIDARITY CAME INTO EXISTENCE BECAUSE BOTH CHURCH AND STATE HAD FAILED THE NATION.

Political Science

Although Church-State Relations have seldom been viewed from the standpoint of nationalism, they raise a series of questions concerning the patterns of loyalty which citizens render to both Church and State. Historians frequently find common religion to be an element of nationalism, but in the nominally Catholic countries of Latin America references to "common religion" in fact hide major diversities and degrees of belief. If reiterations of a common religious heritage by the mass of a population can strengthen thensentiments of common origin and national purpose, open conflict between religious groups may also belie national unity. Religious and national loyalties may be overlapping and mutually reinforcing, or they may be contradictory and antagonistic. The nature of the loyalties differs in time even within the same national context.

With the aim of understanding church-state relations in the PRC, the author explores Chinese communist religious policy, analyses the main ideological sources contributing to the development of that policy and traces the historical development of the church-state relationship since 1949. The state's attempts to destroy the church during the Cultural Revolution. State control of religions in traditional China