My first monograph, Hierarchy and Pluralism: Living Religious Difference in Catholic Poland, explores the ways in which members of religious and ethnic minorities respond to the dominant narrative of the association between Polishness and Catholicism. In doing so, it introduces the concept of “hierarchical pluralism,” an arrangement of social relations that allows plurality while at the same time establishing one ethnic or religious group as the dominant and norm-defining one. However, rather than simplydrawing a picture of uneven relations, my study explores people’s actual practices and discourses as they question existing hierarchies, highlighting the intricate and mutable character of local religious landscapes. Through an examination of the ways in which people live and use religion in their everyday life, I highlight the multifaceted character of “lived religion,” showing how people use their religious identities, beliefs and practices in order both to transgressand to harden religious boundaries. In contrast to other researchers who consider speaking about pluralism in a country like Poland to be meaningless,I contend that we have a more complete understanding of the nature of pluralism if we examine how it is actually lived and experienced within a society that is largely homogeneous. As such, my book sheds a new light on the issues of pluralism, politics of multiculturalism and religious and ethnic conflicts more broadly.