Symbols, Power and Politics, E. Hałas (red.)
Frankfurt am Main 2002, Peter Lang Verlag

CONTENTS
Introduction (Elżbieta Hałas)	7
SYMBOLS AND SOCIETY. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
GARY ALAN FINE Coordination, Symbolic Action, and the Quadrants of Social Order	15
RICHARD GRATHOFF Symbolic Types in Political Actions: a Phenomenological Perspective on Symbols, Powers, and Politics	33
POLITICAL DISCOURSE AND SYMBOLIC ACTION
MAREK CZYŻEWSKI Collective Symbolization in Public Debates on Right-Wing Extremist Violence	45
JOHN BORLAND Let’s Go Walking - History, Symbols and Action in the Reproduction of Ulster Loyalism	63
ELŻBIETA HAŁAS Public Symbols and Polish Identity. Change and Ambiguity of Meaning in State Holidays Calendar of the Third Republic of Poland	81
JERZY J. SMOLICZ Native Tongues and Family Structures as Symbols of Ethnic Identity: an Australian Experience	101
GRAŻYNA WORONIECKA Conflict over Joint Householders’ Possession in Perspective of Discoursive Symbolism	127
RELIGIOUS SYMBOLISM AND POWER
ANNAMARIA ORLA-BUKOWSKA Religious Symbols, Political Power: Crosses and Stars of David and Auschwitz-Birkenau	145
MARTTI MUUKKONEN Less Than a Confession but Much More Than a Mere Formula of Agreement - The YMCA’s Paris Basis as a Symbol of Unity	161
Contributors	187
Index	189