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Challenging theocracy : ancient lessons for global politics /
Commonly perceived as a direct threat to the practice of liberal democracy, the global reemergence of theocratic claims to political rule is a misunderstood development of twenty-first century politics. Analyzing the relationship between religion and politics throughout the Middle East, Africa, and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Page i; Contents; Preface; Part One: Theocracy in Ancient Political Thought and Practice; 1 Theocracy as Temptation: Empire and Mindfulness; 2 The Confrontation between Classical Political Philosophy and the Gods of the City; 3 Between Rationalism and Theocracy: Plato, the Mysteries, and F.W.J. Schelling's Analysis of the Modern State; 4 The Place of Religion in Politics: On Analogous Gods and the Piety of the Unspoken; 5 The Aristotelian Roots of Religious Governance Approaches; Part Two: Theocracy and Modern State Politics; 6 The Non-Theocratic Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI).
- 7 Islamism in North Africa: From Cairo to Tunis8 Theocratic Arguments in Judaism; 9 Saving Miracles: Political Theology and Theocracy in the Schmitt-Benjamin Encounter; Part Three: Responding to the Challenges of Theocracy; 10 Theocracy's Challenge; 11 The Impossibility of Theocracy: The Weakness of the Gods; 12 Understanding Our Adversaries: Ancient vs. Modern Political Thought; 13 Religion, Tolerance, and American Theocratic Politics: Lessons for the Contemporary Era; 14 Shaftesbury's Characteristics and the Problem of Priestcraft; Contributors; Index.