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Maciej Potz

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Department of Political Systems, Faculty of International and Political Studies
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associate professor

Department of Political Systems

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I am a political science professor at the Department of Political Systems, Faculty of International and Political Studies.

My research interests include politics and religion (both the impact of religion on secular political actors and the internal politics of religious organizations), political theory and political philosophy. I'm also keenly interested in the impact of recent technological and social developments on the future of politics.

I am the PI of a research project on power in Catholic monastic institutions (Monastic politics: power and status in religious orders) financed by the Polish National Science Center.

In 2021-22, I was a Visiting Scholar at the Stanford University, working on a project on costly signaling in religious communities.

I collaborate with EUREL, a European research network on sociology of religion.

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Monographs

Political Science of Religion: Theorizing the Political Role of Religion, Palgrave Macmillan, London 2020.

Teokracje amerykańskie. Źródła i mechanizmy władzy usankcjonowanej religijnie, Wydawnictwo UŁ, Łódź 2016, ss. 395.

Granice wolności religijnej. Kwestie wolności sumienia i wyznania oraz stosunku państwa do religii w Stanach Zjednoczonych Ameryki, Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej, Wrocław 2008, ss. 278.

Wydanie II zmienione: Granice wolności religijnej. Problemy polityczno-wyznaniowe w Stanach Zjednoczonych Ameryki, Wydawnictwo UMK, Toruń 2015, ss. 296.


Articles

Symbolic Conflict in the Public Sphere: the Catholic Church against the State in Post-Communist Poland, "East European Politics and Societies", 2023

Voluntary Costly Signals in Religious Communities: a Political Interpretation, “Method and Theory in the Study of Religion” 2023, vol. 35, issue 4.

Costly Commitments "Under His Eye" - Reconceptualizing the Costly Signaling Theory of Religion, “Journal of the American Academy of Religion” 2022, Vol. 90, Issue 3, September 2022

W stronę biopolitologii: perspektywa naturalistyczna w naukach o polityce, „Colloquium” 2021, 2(42).

Perspektywy badawcze w politologii religii, “Studia Religiologica” 2019, t. 52, nr 4, s. 277–291.

Political agency and violence: understanding the causes of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, “Religion, State and Society” 2019, vol. 47, issue 3, s. 290–306.

Religion in public life [w:] Civic and Uncivic Values in Poland, eds. K. Dośpiał-Borysiak, S. Ramet, K. Ringdal, CEU Press, Budapest–New York 2019.

Shakers [in:] World Religions and Spirituality, ed. David Bromley, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2019.

Empowerment through religion: religion's survival strategies in democratic politics, “Przegląd Politologiczny” 2016, nr4, ss. 93–105.

The Politics Of Schism. The Origins Of Dissent In Mormonism, “Studia Religiologica” 2016, nr 3, s. 203–218.

A contemporary religious political movement: LDS Church’s nation-wide political campaigns, „Annales UMCS. Sectio K; Politologia” 2016, vol. 23, nr 1.

Idea ziemskiego zbawienia w wizjach ładu społeczno-politycznego [w:] Ideologie, doktryny, ruchy społeczne i polityczne. Wybrane problemy, red. M. Marczewska-Rytko, W. Ziętara, UMCS, Lublin 2015, s. 271–280.

Czy wybory umożliwiają artykulację preferencji politycznych?, „Studia Politologiczne” 2015, vol. 37, s. 293–311.

American Shakers – Dying Religion, Emerging Cultural Phenomenon, „Studia Religiologica” 2014, t. 47, nr 4, s. 307–320.

Fikcje polityczne i legitymizacja władzy w demokracji, „Wrocławskie Studia Politologiczne” 2014, t. 17, s. 36–52.

Teologia teokracji. Religijna legitymizacja władzy u amerykańskich purytanów i mormonów, „Przegląd Religioznawczy” 2013, nr 4, s. 51–67.

Religious doctrine as a factor of stability of political systems. A study of two North American theocracies, “Politics and Religion Journal” 2013, vol. 7, no. 2, s. 413–435.

Teokracje północnoamerykańskie. Historia i współczesność, [w:] Myśl społeczna wielkich religii świata, red. M. Marczewska-Rytko, E. Olszewski, Wydawnictwo UMCS, Lublin 2013, s. 275–290.

Legitimation mechanisms as third-dimension power practices. The case of the Shakers, “Journal of Political Power” 2012, vol. 5, issue 3, s. 377–409.

Disentangling Democracy [w:] European Culture in Diversity, eds. K. Kujawińska-Courtney, M. Łukowska, E. Williams, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge 2011, s. 7-22.

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