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Joke Religions and Ecclesiastical Law: The Case of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Church in Poland (Piotr Czarnecki)

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A legal-scholarship book chapter examining the Polish state's repeated refusal to register the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, tracing the administrative and court history and the legal reasoning that a body founded to parody religious belief, rather than to profess it, does not meet the statutory definition of a religious organization under Polish law.

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Author
Piotr Czarnecki
Publisher
Zaklad Wydawniczy Nomos, in "Religion in the Context of Globalization: Legal Aspects of the Functioning of Religious Organizations", ed. W. Cole Durham Jr., Elisabeth Clark and Elena Nechiporova, pp. 104-117
Publication Year
2017
Source Type
book chapter
Assessment
Reliability Tier
1
A chapter in an edited legal-scholarship volume on comparative religion law, by a scholar publishing specifically on the Polish case, giving the Poland refusal its own dedicated academic treatment rather than relying on news coverage alone.
Notes
Cited for the Poland refusal specifically within Pastafarianism's legal-status fact.
Claims Backed By This Source (9 claims)

This source backs 9 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

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  • Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
  • Articles, 1 claims: 1 general references.
  • Religions, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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