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Analyzing the relationship between religion and politicsthroughout the Middle East, Africa, and the United States, as wellas classical and medieval political ph...
12 wrz 2024 · Theocracy, government by divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided. In many theocracies, government leaders are members of the clergy, and the state’s legal system is based on religious law. The Enlightenment marked the end of theocracy in most Western countries.
Quantitative evidence on the rise of ancient Israelite theocracy and the current surge of Islamic theocratic fundamentalism provides surprisingly strong support for this prediction.
21 paź 2008 · the varied list of historical theocracies surveyed by Ferrero shows, theoc-racy features only male ruling classes: Catholic clergy, Israelite priesthood, Buddhist monkhood, Protestant congregations of “saints,” and the Muslim caliphate and sects. 4. The theocratic economy. Does theocracy bias the regime against innov ation, as Glazer argues?
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.
1 lis 2020 · An empirical analysis of the transition from premodern to modern theocracy, based on a unique dataset of religion and politics in world history, indicates that the adoption of general rules in the modern era differed systematically between societies in which strong state capacity was a complement rather than a substitute for religion.
1 lis 2020 · We use a novel dataset comprising the religious and political histories of today's nations to construct an index of historical religious fragmentation, which we use as a proxy variable for the extent of premodern theocracy.
