LEADER 03870nam 22006015 450 001 9910796749903321 005 20230123052643.0 010 $a1-4426-1990-2 010 $a1-4426-1989-9 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442619890 035 $a(CKB)4100000004835054 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5429789 035 $a(DE-B1597)501316 035 $a(OCoLC)1040694496 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442619890 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_106663 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000004835054 100 $a20180829d2018 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aChallenging Theocracy $eAncient Lessons for Global Politics /$fDavid Tabachnick, Toivo Koivukoski, Herminio Meireles Teixeira 210 1$aToronto : $cUniversity of Toronto Press, $d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (366 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-4426-4929-1 311 $a1-4426-2667-4 327 $aCover; 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). 327 $a7 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. 330 $aCommonly 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 the United States, as well as classical and medieval political philosophical sources, Challenging Theocracy critiques the contemporary formation of theocracy. Providing an account of the origins and influence of theocracy, the chapters in this volume explore ancient texts that articulate the theocratic political ideas that continue to bubble under the surface of political life today. In an effort to consider how regimes extend beyond their immediate institutional and legal forms and find their foundation in timeless ideas, the contributors examine ancient and modern political thought to better understand their persistent power and impact on global politics. 606 $aTheocracy$xHistory 606 $aReligion and politics$xHistory 606 $aPolitical science$xPhilosophy 608 $aHistory. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTheocracy$xHistory. 615 0$aReligion and politics$xHistory. 615 0$aPolitical science$xPhilosophy. 676 $a321/.5 686 $acci1icc$2lacc 686 $acoll13$2lacc 702 $aKoivukoski$b Toivo, 702 $aTabachnick$b David, 702 $aTeixeira$b Herminio Meireles, 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910796749903321 996 $aChallenging Theocracy$93767296 997 $aUNINA