RELIGIOUS DIMENSION OF NATIONAL IDENTITY IN INTERWAR POLAND

Анотація

The article analyzes the peculiarities of the study of the religious dimension of
the functioning of the national state - Second Commonwealth. The specifi cs
of the coverage of church-religious processes as a part of the problems of
national minorities of interwar Poland are considered. The interdependence
between national doctrine and Catholicism as its element is established and
the correspondence with the vector of Catholic studies of the concept of the
national Polish state is established. The differences in the discourse on the
study of the functioning of Ukrainian denominations in Poland - Orthodox and
Greek Catholicism are outlined. The specifi cs of the study of confessions of
non-titular nations and the state policy regarding national-religious minorities
as a source of contemporary national bias are highlighted.
Keywords: multiconfessional, national state, Catholicism, national minorities,
religious identity.