Uwagi na marginesie książki: Finansowanie Kościołów i innych związków wyznaniowych, pod red. Pawła Sobczyka i Krzysztofa Warchałowskiego
Notes on the book Financing Churches and Other Religious Organizations, edited by Paweł Sobczyk and Krzysztof Warchałowski

Summary/Abstract: Financing churches and other religious organizations is a socially significant issue, but it is especially important to religious entities and their members. That is why it is worth to mention a book Finansowanie Kościołów i innych związków wyznaniowych [Financing Churches and Other Religious Organizations], published in 2013 and edited by Paweł Sobczyk and Krzysztof Warchałowski, which is a monograph consisting of 28 articles by various authors. This substantial volume of 478 pages begins with an introduction and is divided into seven parts. At the end there is also an appendix and a summary in English. Part One of the book is devoted to general matters; Part Two concerns financing religious organizations from the historical perspective; Part Three deals with financing cultural and scientific activities of religious entities; Part Four presents selected aspects of financing the activities of religious entities; Part Five discusses tax and insurance questions; Part Six addresses the subject of regulating the financial situation of churches and other religious organizations and Part Seven presents the principles of financing religious entities in selected countries. The appendix addresses the question of readiness on the part of both the State and religious entities to face a possible lack of social response to a plausible necessity of paying a church tax. The book is an important scholarly contribution to the question of financing religious entities in Poland, especially in the face of intended changes in the financial basis of religious entities in the Republic of Poland.

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