Building the Stained Glass Prism: The Development of the Polish Catholic Church's Electronic Media Properties 1989-2003

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dc.contributor.advisorHiebert, Ray E.en_US
dc.contributor.authorBurns, David Paulen_US
dc.contributor.departmentJournalismen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2005-02-02T06:37:09Z
dc.date.available2005-02-02T06:37:09Z
dc.date.issued2004-11-24en_US
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation investigates the Polish political, economic, and social transition from 1989 to 2003 from communism to capitalism, specifically its impact on a powerful Polish institution the Roman Catholic Church - and by extension, the Church's electronic media properties. As Poland changed from an eastern-looking collectivist society to a more western individualist society, its conservative Catholic Church likewise moved from a more autocratic, cohesive force towards a more liberal, Post-Vatican II approach to worship supported by the first Polish pontiff, John Paul II. Various Catholic religious orders with political viewpoints ranging from liberal to ultra-conservative managed the Church's radio, television and Internet properties and shaped the Church's mediated messages along their own religious ideology. This divisiveness was similarly reflected in fragmentation within the Church hierarchy, with individual Polish bishops supporting the media properties that most closely espoused their viewpoint.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/2057
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMass Communicationsen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPolitical Science, Generalen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHistory, Churchen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPolanden_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCatholic Churchen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmass mediaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcommunismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcapitalismen_US
dc.titleBuilding the Stained Glass Prism: The Development of the Polish Catholic Church's Electronic Media Properties 1989-2003en_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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