Reconcilation in Bloodlands ─ Assessing Actions and Outcomes in Contemporary Central-eastern Europe

Having its origins in a research grant funding the study of reconciliation in multicultural areas given by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, this volume contains 17 papers that explore aspects of reconciliation and coexistence in Central-Eastern Europe, mainly through sociological, anthropological, and psychological disciplinary lenses. Topics include: hate narrations; Pope John Paul II's teaching and practice of conciliation; Polish youth confronting the Jewish past and pathways to reconciliation; contributions of the Opole Catholic Church to the reconciliation of ethnic groups, traditions, and cultures; young people of Cieszyn Silesia in interfaith dialogue; marital selection and reconciliation in two Polish bi-denominational communities; memory sites and their relationship to antagonism and reconciliation in the case of Polish-Czech relations; Latvian-Russian relations in Daugavpils since 1991; and past conflicts and seeking of reconciliation on the Polish-Ukrainian borderland. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Jacek Kurczewski holds the Chair of Sociology and Anthropology of Custom and Law at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw (Poland). The professor’s main areas of interest are sociology and anthropology of law, political representation, and local-level politics. In 1997/98, he was Academic Director at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Onati (Spain). He is editor of the journal Societas/Communitas.