Essays about: "Theocracy"

Found 2 essays containing the word Theocracy.

1. 1. A History of Rule by Divine Law among Semitic Cultures

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Historia

   Author : Karl Bjur; [2020]
   Keywords : History; Islam; Arabic; Judaism; Hammurabi; Akkadian; State; Divine law; Sharia; Halakha; Aksum; Ethiopia; Empire; Didascalia; Theocracy; Theonomocracy; Semitic; Israelite; Al-Māturīdī; Al-Māwardī; Religious History; Middle-east; Africa; Kitāb al-Tawḥīd; Māturīdīya; Rulership; Oriental; Despotism; Absolutism; Cultural Darwinism; Comparative oriental studies; Cross-cultural study; Orientalism; Large-scale History; History and Archaeology;

   Abstract : This is a comparative study of several widespread and canonical texts from the lowlands of the Middle East and North Africa, with regard to historically reoccurring interconnected traits of ideal state structure among cultures, where Semitic languages have been main languages of communication from the 18th century BC to the modern day. The study is of reoccurring ideals of state structure with defined limits and causes for its existence across several Semitic speaking cultures. READ MORE

3. 2. The Post-revolutionary Hierocracy in Iran: Fundamentalism or populism?

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

   Author : Reza Chitsaz; [2015-10-23]
   Keywords : Post-revolutionary Iran; Fundamentalism; Khomeini; Modernity;

   Abstract : Few words are being used so frequently in the study of religion as the word fundamentalism. Even though the term was coined more than a century ago, it was with the establishment of the post-revolutionary hierocracy in Iran that it became part of common language. READ MORE