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Pandemic Geographies of Home: Domestic Thresholding in Response to COVID‐19

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.
Short Abstract With the home at the forefront of political and public health responses to COVID‐19, the thresholds between domestic space and the world beyond acquired a new significance in people's everyday lives. This paper introduces the concept of ‘thresholding’ to explore the ways in which internal and external thresholds are understood and ...
Alison Blunt, Kathy Burrell, Annabelle Wilkins, Georgina Endfield, Miri Lawrence, Eithne Nightingale, Alastair Owens, Jacqueline Waldock   +7 more
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The Roman Catholic parish in Poland as the local community

Journal for Perspectives of Economic Political and Social Integration, 2014
In the Roman Catholic Church a parish is the smallest legal unit and it is the milieu for religious, social, and cultural activities for a group of people joined together in a geographical area.
Mariański Janusz
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Alterations in Religious Rituals Due to COVID-19 Could Be Related to Intragroup Negativity: A Case of Changes in Receiving Holy Communion in the Roman Catholic Community in Poland

Religions, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected various domains of everyday life, including important religious rituals. In the Roman Catholic Church in Poland, the reception of Holy Communion was substantially altered.
Marcin Moroń, Magdalena Biolik-Moroń, Krzysztof Matuszewski   +2 more
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A dual‐process perspective on classism. Right‐wing authoritarianism buffers the relationship between social dominance orientation and classism in Poland

Political Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 2, April 2026.
Abstract Rising global and local inequalities make prejudice based on social class an increasingly pressing issue, yet it remains underexplored in psychological literature. Across three studies run in Poland, we apply the Dual‐Process Model of Ideology and Prejudice and find that Social Dominance Orientation (SDO)—a preference for social hierarchy ...
Maciej R. Górski, Paulina Górska, Michał Bilewicz   +2 more
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Spór o białorutenizację Kościoła katolickiego na Białorusi

Collectanea Theologica, 2016
Belorussification is explained as the process of change of direction of the local Roman Catholic Church from Polish national to Belarussian. It aims to becoming an independent Church as the religious standalone institution on the area of the autonomous ...
Joanna Dworzecka
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‘FROM GHETTO TO HABITUS FACTORY’ ROMA CAMPS IN ITALY: An Empirical Extension of Loïc Wacquant's Theorization

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 449-465, March 2026.
Abstract In this article we apply Wacquant's conceptualization of the ghetto to an analysis of interviews conducted with Roma people living in the state‐enforced camps of Turin, Italy. We illustrate how the elements characterizing a ghetto according to Wacquant (i.e.
Vincenzo Romania, Tommaso Bertazzo
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Shades of empire: Evidence from Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian partitions in the Baltics

The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 342-376, February 2026.
Abstract In this study, we explore the long‐run effects of Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian imperial legacies in the Baltic region. Using a robust regression discontinuity design, we identify persistent differences in socio‐economic development across the South Livonia–Courland and the South Livonia–Lettgallia borders that emerged as a result of the ...
Theocharis N. Grigoriadis, Alise Vitola
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The Soil Erosion Paradox Re‐Examined: Alluviation and Land Use History in a Small British Lowland River Catchment in the Late Holocene

Geoarchaeology, Volume 41, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT Modern studies show that soil erosion results in a loss of ecosystem function, particularly fertility, and is a cause of declining agricultural yields. However, despite the well‐attested high rates of soil erosion across Roman and medieval Europe there appears to have been little or no soil‐associated decline in agricultural production—the ...
Ben Pears, Emily Forster, Sam Hudson, Jayne Carroll, Richard Jones, Antony G. Brown   +5 more
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Polish modernism that "wasn’t": features, trends, participants

Российский журнал истории Церкви
A  movement aimed at modernizing both the Church itself and its relationships with society took place in the Roman Catholic Church in the late XIXth and early XXth centuries.
I. V. Vorontsova
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Memorandum of Lviv metropolitan bishop Józef Bilczewski on the Polish-Ukrainian relations in Galicia (Lesser Poland) in the years 1914-1920

Folia Historica Cracoviensia, 2004
The First World War and, towards the end of it, the armed conflict between Poland and Ukraine (1918/1919), as well as the Bolshevik invasion of Poland in 1920 created new challenges not only for the Polish raison d’état but also for the Polish Church ...
Józef Wołczański
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