Name Irena Borowik | Role Writer | |
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Irena Borowik (born 1956), is a Polish publisher and professor of religious studies at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. She is the Chair and co-founder of the International Study of Religion in Eastern and Central Europe Association (ISORECEA) and has been a board member of the Research Committee on Sociology of Religion of the International Sociological Association. She sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Contemporary Religion and of Social Compass.
As an editor and publisher, Borowik has brought the Central and Eastern European sociology of religion to the attention of the wider world through her publishing house NOMOS, which has published papers presented at ISORICEA conferences and related works. Inside Poland, she has been responsible for translations of key international writers in religious studies into Polish, especially Eileen Barker, Peter L. Berger, and Thomas Luckmann.
Borowik has also published volumes of poetry in Polish and Belarusian.