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1 sty 2008 · This article examines the dialectics of democracy and theocracy with special reference to past and present processes of secularization.
Seventeenth-century political and juridical thinkers mined the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, and rabbinic literature for ideas, examples and full-fledged political systems, aiming to apply them to modern Europe.
1 cze 2024 · This essay about theocracy explores both historical and modern examples of governments where religious leaders hold political power. It examines ancient Egypt, where pharaohs ruled as divine leaders, and the Papal States, governed by the Pope until 1870.
1 sty 2013 · Quantitative evidence on the rise of ancient Israelite theocracy and the current surge of Islamic theocratic fundamentalism provides surprisingly strong support for this prediction.
Our overview of Theocracy curates a series of relevant extracts and key research examples on this topic from our catalog of academic textbooks.
21 paź 2008 · theocracy is a government in which the priests could actually govern them- selves, but sometimes choose to contract out the running of the government to secular authorities.
23 lut 2012 · Quantitative evidence on the rise of ancient Israelite theocracy and the current surge of Islamic theocratic fundamentalism provides surprisingly strong support for this prediction. Lastly, supportive evidence is suggested by two rare instances of a theocracy’s peaceful demise.
