Book chapter2016Dominik Tylka
CitationTylka, Dominik. “Patriarcha prezydentem – społeczne i polityczne uwarunkowania cypryjskiego papocezaryzmu.” In Władza w przestrzeni społeczno-politycznej. Ujęcie teoretyczne i praktyczne, edited by Tomasz Bojarowicz, Wojciech Kotowicz and Paweł Schmidt, 101–115. Olsztyn: Instytut Nauk Politycznych Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie, 2016.
Abstract
The chapter examines the social and political conditions that enabled Archbishop Makarios III to become president of Cyprus. It relates this outcome to two factors: the continuing Orthodox tradition of close relations between religious and political authority and the island’s distinctive historical experience as a borderland in which the Orthodox Church long served as a substitute for national statehood among Greek Cypriots.
Author's summary
This paper uses Cyprus to analyse the political consequences of historically embedded religious authority. The case of Makarios III shows how leadership cannot be explained solely through constitutional institutions: long-term cultural memory, borderland experience and the church’s role as a substitute for statehood can generate exceptional political legitimacy.
Keywords
polityzacja religii, pogranicze, papocezaryzm, przywództwo polityczne
About the author
Dominik Tylka
Institute of Political Science and Public Administration, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw
Dominik Tylka is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Science and Public Administration, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. His research focuses on social and political power, individual agency, and the conditions under which asymmetries of resources become effective and relatively durable relations of compliance. He is particularly interested in the interaction between social structures and individual responses, including obedience, adaptation, circumvention and resistance.