Wizerunek kapłana w wyobrażeniach młodzieży polskiej. Socjologiczna analiza na podstawie badań z lat 1983-2008
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2011
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Polskie Towarzystwo Religioznawcze
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Józef Baniak – THE PICTURE OF THE PRIEST IN THE VIEWS OF THE POLISH YOUTH. A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS FROM THE YEARS 1983-2008
In this paper I present the attitudes (imaginations and evaluations) of Polish youth in gymna-siums, high schools and universities towards institutional priesthood and the work of priests in parishes, all observed during three separate sociological researches in the years 1983-2008 (that is in the past 25 years). The attitude of all of my interlocutors towards priesthood and priests themselves did significantly change in that time period, especially in the first decade of the 21st century. In the time span examined what did change, was the perception and understanding of the essence of priesthood by the people interviewed, as well their evaluations of the need for becoming a priest present in the Polish society and their own families, or the attitude of interlocutors towards the role of the priest in the religious and secular life of people – individuals and as well social groups. The percentage of respondents accepting fully the priesthood and seeing positively its role in the society did systematically down crease in the mentioned period. On the other hand, in the examined pe-riod of 25 years a significant percentage of high school and academic youth had understood correct-ly the essence of priesthood, also noticed a social need for the work of priests in their parishes. In the evaluation of this part of respondents institutional priesthood means a „free” religious vocation (that is by God), without which no priest is able to prevail in the priesthood or successfully play the role in the Church and the society, or being a role model in the sense of a person, morality and religion for secular Catholics. On a such a priest do model, in the views of the these respondents, other candidates aspiring to enter the priesthood. We may add that in the case of Poland it is an important question or even a serious and basic one.
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Przegląd Religioznawczy, nr1(239) ,2011, ss. 223-247.
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1230-4379