RELIGION AND DAILY LIFE. ABOUT CHALLENGES FOR CATHOLIC CHURCH IN POLAND

Abstract

The article, based on the results of nationwide sociological research, answers the questions of the extent to which religion actually determines the Poles’ behaviours. It analyses the ways in which people cope with cognitive dissonance between their religious identity and their opinions/habits etc. which do not conform with the official teaching of the Catholic Church. It also examines the issue of social expectations about changes in the Church and its teachings.