Antropologicheskij forum, 2018, no. 36

A Review of AGNIESZKA PASIEKA, HIERARCHY AND PLURALISM: LIVING RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCE IN CATHOLIC POLAND. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 284 pp. (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Series)

Ekaterina Khonineva
European University at St Petersburg
6/1 А Gagarinskaya Str., St Petersburg, Russia
Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera), Russian Academy of Sciences
3 Universitetskaya Emb., St Petersburg, Russia
ekhonineva()eu.spb.ru

Abstract: This monograph presents the results of research of a border region characterized by ethnic and religious diversity in the otherwise homogenous, Catholic Poland. The author introduces the term hierarchical pluralism to describe the configuration of hierarchical and horizontal social relations, reproduced in everyday interaction and social imagery. The review discusses the particular aspects of the work with multiconfessional community and also those analytical limitations and difficulties that the anthropologist can encounter in an effort to keep up with the intersections and blurring of social boundaries.

Keywords: anthropology of religion, memory studies, pluralism, Poland, Catholicism.

To cite: Khonineva E., ‘A Review of Agnieszka Pasieka, Hierarchy and Pluralism: Living Religious Difference in Catholic Poland. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 284 pp. (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Series)’, Antropologicheskij forum, 2018, no. 36, pp. 198–208.

doi: 10.31250/1815-8870-2018-14-36-198-208

URL: http://anthropologie.kunstkamera.ru/files/pdf/036/khonineva.pdf