Search results
1 sty 2008 · This article examines the dialectics of democracy and theocracy with special reference to past and present processes of secularization.
This article argues that Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter can provide insight into the persistent appeal of the moral and political certitudes that theocracy offers and that can serve as a corrective to liberal secularism's often.
The essay discerns three clusters of ideas reaped exclusively, or mainly, from Hebraic sources, and interwoven into modern political thought: (1)The importance of the rule of law within fixed borders: a concept of international borders underpinning a novel, natural-law-based theory of the state, law, and rights; (2) the idea of a federal ...
21 paź 2008 · a theocracy as government organized and directed by the priesthood, but in all other respects simply as another form of dictatorship. In Ferrero’s chapter, 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.
15 sie 2019 · Abstract. This chapter looks into three key aspects of theocratic power relations: how rulers are selected (succession procedures), how their power is institutionalized within the system (institutional regimes) and how they make the ruled conform to the norms they establish (political control).
23 lut 2012 · This paper has addressed theocracy as a regime in which a clergy conducts political government directly in preference to an alternative arrangement where it negotiates a division of labor and rents with a secular ruler.
Our overview of Theocracy curates a series of relevant extracts and key research examples on this topic from our catalog of academic textbooks.
